How much revenue did Quern - Undying Thoughts make?

$1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Quern - Undying Thoughts sell?

Q: How many copies did Quern - Undying Thoughts sell?

169k to 275k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 169k–275k; $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Quern - Undying Thoughts out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Quern - Undying Thoughts's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.2M

best case 3.5M (Outer Wilds)

Games like Quern - Undying Thoughts

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–2.2M copies

≈ $10.5M–$25.7M after Steam's cut

from ~34k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Outer Wilds at ≈ 2.7M–4.3M copies, ≈ $18.3M–$49.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (6 of 8) and Mystery (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Space, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Space + Exploration + Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 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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