How much revenue did Engare make?

$44k–$119k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Engare sell?

Q: How many copies did Engare sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 467 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $44k–$119k after Steam's cut $80k–$183k before Steam's cut; from 467 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 Engare and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Engare's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 160k–506k

best case 693k (Murders on the Yangtze River)

Games like Engare

A typical game among these

≈ 160k–506k copies

≈ $1.6M–$3.9M 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: Murders on the Yangtze River at ≈ 528k–858k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 366 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $15.
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 79 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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