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How many copies did ?? Movie Theater sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–6k
$5k–$14k after Steam's cut $10k–$22k before Steam's cut
from 155 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 ?? Movie Theater and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ?? Movie Theater's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–3k
best case 181k (SLUDGE LIFE)
Games like ?? Movie Theater

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–3k copies

≈ $2k after Steam's cut

from ~46 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: SLUDGE LIFE at ≈ 138k–224k copies, ≈ $568k–$1.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 24 reviews in their first month; the range was 14 to 129.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share 3D Platformer (7 of 8) and Walking Simulator (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + 3D Platformer, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Indie + Open World + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.
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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