How much revenue did The End of You make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The End of You sell?

Q: How many copies did The End of You sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 88 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 88 reviews (Very 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 The End of You and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The End of You's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 119k–816k

best case 1.1M (Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk)

Games like The End of You

A typical game among these

≈ 119k–816k copies

≈ $1.5M–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk at ≈ 853k–1.4M copies, ≈ $349k–$939k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 163 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (7 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $1.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

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 79 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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Digimon Survive 2022	Est. copies ≈ 93k–151k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before Steam's cut	$59.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	Visual NovelTactical RPG
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk 2020	Est. copies ≈ 853k–1.4M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $349k–$939k after Steam's cut $635k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$1.49	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual Novel Psychological Horror
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A Date in the Park 2016	Est. copies ≈ 86k–139k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Very Positive	ExplorationPoint & Click
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