How much revenue did Misery Avenue make?

$163–$439 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Misery Avenue sell?

Q: How many copies did Misery Avenue sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $163–$439 after Steam's cut $297–$676 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 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 Misery Avenue and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Misery Avenue's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 140k–380k

best case 930k (Sonic Frontiers)

Games like Misery Avenue

A typical game among these

≈ 140k–380k copies

≈ $683k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: Sonic Frontiers at ≈ 709k–1.2M copies, ≈ $7.8M–$21.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 508 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 3D Platformer (7 of 8) and Action Roguelike (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + 3D Platformer, priced around $40.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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