How much revenue did Through Abandoned: The Forest make?

$26k–$70k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Through Abandoned: The Forest sell?

Q: How many copies did Through Abandoned: The Forest sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 456 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $26k–$70k after Steam's cut $47k–$108k before Steam's cut; from 456 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 Through Abandoned: The Forest and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Through Abandoned: The Forest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 48k–573k

best case 1.4M (Return of the Obra Dinn)

Games like Through Abandoned: The Forest

A typical game among these

≈ 48k–573k copies

≈ $803k–$3.7M 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Return of the Obra Dinn at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 4k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mystery (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Mystery, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2022, 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 61 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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Return of the Obra Dinn 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M 6.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut $10.7M–$24.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	35k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectiveMystery
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