How much revenue did The Memory Thieves make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Memory Thieves sell?

Q: How many copies did The Memory Thieves sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 50 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 Memory Thieves and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Memory Thieves's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–62k

best case 595k (Wildermyth)

Games like The Memory Thieves

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–62k copies

≈ $22k–$728k after Steam's cut

from ~474 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Wildermyth at ≈ 454k–737k copies, ≈ $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 107 reviews in their first month; the range was 8 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Procedural Generation (8 of 8) and Fantasy (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party-Based RPG + Choices Matter, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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