How much revenue did Trials of Innocence make?

$209k–$563k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Trials of Innocence sell?

Q: How many copies did Trials of Innocence sell?

45k to 73k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 45k–73k; $209k–$563k after Steam's cut $381k–$866k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Trials of Innocence and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Trials of Innocence's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 131k–281k

best case 349k (No Case Should Remain Unsolved)

Games like Trials of Innocence

A typical game among these

≈ 131k–281k copies

≈ $738k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: No Case Should Remain Unsolved at ≈ 266k–433k copies, ≈ $512k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 221 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (6 of 8) and Detective (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Puzzle, priced around $7.
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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