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How many copies did Song of the Myrne: What Lies Beneath sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–7k
$6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before Steam's cut
from 91 reviews (Mostly 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 Song of the Myrne: What Lies Beneath and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Song of the Myrne: What Lies Beneath's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.0M–19.2M
best case 37.7M (ELDEN RING)
Games like Song of the Myrne: What Lies Beneath

A typical game among these

≈ 7.0M–19.2M copies

≈ $137.1M–$222.6M after Steam's cut

from ~283k 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: ELDEN RING at ≈ 28.7M–46.6M copies, ≈ $473.6M–$1273.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 183k reviews in their first month; the range was 98k to 347k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Co-op (6 of 8) and Character Customization (2 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Souls-like + Open World, priced around $60.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 2 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).

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