How many copies did Emily is Away sell?

1.6M to 2.6M copies, based on its 32k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Emily is Away make?

Emily is Away is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Emily is Away?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 1.6M–2.6M; from 32k 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 Emily is Away and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Emily is Away's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.7M–10.4M

best case 40.7M (Wallpaper Engine)

Games like Emily is Away

A typical game among these

≈ 4.7M–10.4M copies

≈ $9.1M–$80.8M after Steam's cut

from ~145k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Wallpaper Engine at ≈ 31.0M–50.3M copies, ≈ $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (4 of 8) and Anime (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mature + Utilities, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Design & Illustration + Animation & Modeling + Utilities; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2021, and none of them 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 70 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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Halo Infinite 2021	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.3M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	181k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayFPS
Stellaris 2016	Est. copies ≈ 8.2M–13.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut $204.7M–$465.6M before Steam's cut	$49.99	197k reviews Very Positive	SpaceGrand Strategy
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 31.0M–50.3M 7.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut $77.3M–$175.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Mirror 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before Steam's cut	$1.99	84k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Sexual ContentNudity
Black Mesa 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $19.8M–$53.2M after Steam's cut $35.9M–$81.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	145k reviews Very Positive	FPSRemake
Doki Doki Literature Club! 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.9M–12.8M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	229k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Visual Novel
Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.3M after Steam's cut $9.0M–$20.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	105k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
Metro 2033 Redux 2014	Est. copies ≈ 8.0M–12.9M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $43.8M–$117.8M after Steam's cut $79.6M–$181.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	142k reviews Very Positive	Post-apocalypticFPS