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?

170k to 277k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 170k–277k; $1.2M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.8M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Quern - Undying Thoughts and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Quern - Undying Thoughts's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.3M

best case 3.5M (Outer Wilds)

Games like Quern - Undying Thoughts

A typical game among these

≈ 1.3M–2.3M copies

≈ $10.7M–$25.8M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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: Outer Wilds at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $18.5M–$49.7M 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 7k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share 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.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of the 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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