How much revenue did A Fold Apart make?

$8k–$22k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Fold Apart sell?

Q: How many copies did A Fold Apart sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 121 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$34k before Steam's cut; from 121 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 A Fold Apart and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Fold Apart's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 357k–1.0M

best case 1.2M (LoveChoice)

Games like A Fold Apart

A typical game among these

≈ 357k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.4M–$4.0M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: LoveChoice at ≈ 910k–1.5M copies, ≈ $498k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 41 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and Wholesome (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Romance + Dating Sim, priced around $2.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2023, 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 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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