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

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

99 to 161 copies, based on its 4 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

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

$408–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 99–161; $408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before Steam's cut; from 4 reviews (4 user reviews); Only 4 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 854k–1.6M

best case 3.8M (Mirror 2: Project X)

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

A typical game among these

≈ 854k–1.6M copies

≈ $1.4M–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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: Mirror 2: Project X at ≈ 2.9M–4.7M copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Match 3 + Anime, priced around $2.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

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Mirror 2: Project X 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.7M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.5M before Steam's cut	$1.99	116k reviews Mostly Negative	3DMatch 3
Finding Paradise 2017	Est. copies ≈ 702k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut $3.5M–$8.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichEmotional
Love Is All Around 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.1M–$8.4M after Steam's cut $5.7M–$12.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	46k reviews Very Positive	Dating SimSexual Content
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut 2023	Est. copies ≈ 856k–1.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.5M before Steam's cut	$17.99	35k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelChoices Matter
LoveChoice 2021	Est. copies ≈ 910k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $498k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $906k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$1.99	37k reviews Very Positive	RomanceDating Sim
Impostor Factory 2021	Est. copies ≈ 319k–519k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $877k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichEmotional
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut $7.4M–$16.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	60k reviews Very Positive	Visual NovelHistorical
The Test 2020	Est. copies ≈ 499k–810k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $273k–$734k after Steam's cut $496k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$1.99	20k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choose Your Own AdventureSimulation