How many copies did STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son sell?

Q: How many copies did STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Q: How much revenue did STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son make?

$6k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before Steam's cut; from 41 reviews (Positive)

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 STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–8k

best case 13k (ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos)

Games like STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–8k copies

≈ $4k–$87k after Steam's cut

from ~76 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos at ≈ 10k–17k copies, ≈ $84k–$225k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16 reviews in their first month; the range was 8 to 75.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (7 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Visual Novel, priced around $30.
When they shipped: Only 1 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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TOKYO CHRONOS 2019	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $81k–$216k after Steam's cut $146k–$333k before Steam's cut	$29.99	339 reviews Very Positive	VRVisual Novel
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos 2021	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k 5.4x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $84k–$225k after Steam's cut $152k–$347k before Steam's cut	$29.99	410 reviews Very Positive	VRVisual Novel
CURSED NIGHT - The House 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$7.99	43 reviews Positive	HorrorVR
hallucination - 幻觉 2021	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$57k before Steam's cut	$9.99	204 reviews Very Positive	Sci-fiVisual Novel
Playing God 2020	Est. copies ≈ 893–1k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	36 reviews Mixed	VRInteractive Fiction
The Last Taxi 2022	Est. copies ≈ 496–806 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut	$19.99	20 reviews Positive	VRAdventure
Madrid Noir 2021	Est. copies ≈ 992–2k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $2k–$7k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$8.99	40 reviews Positive	Animation & ModelingInteractive Fiction
I'm Surrounded by Classical Beauties! 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut	$2.99	108 reviews Mixed	FMVVR