How much revenue did Echoes of Yi : Samsara make?

$77k–$207k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Echoes of Yi : Samsara sell?

Q: How many copies did Echoes of Yi : Samsara sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 566 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $77k–$207k after Steam's cut $140k–$319k before Steam's cut; from 566 reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Echoes of Yi : Samsara and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Echoes of Yi : Samsara's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 99k–136k

best case 205k (The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me)

Games like Echoes of Yi : Samsara

A typical game among these

≈ 99k–136k copies

≈ $930k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me at ≈ 156k–254k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 741 reviews in their first month; the range was 189 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Multiple Endings, priced around $40.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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