How much revenue did Of Bird and Cage make?

$15k–$42k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Of Bird and Cage sell?

Q: How many copies did Of Bird and Cage sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 227 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $15k–$42k after Steam's cut $28k–$64k before Steam's cut; from 227 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 Of Bird and Cage and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Of Bird and Cage's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–133k

best case 537k (Florence)

Games like Of Bird and Cage

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–133k copies

≈ $16k–$645k after Steam's cut

from ~583 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Florence at ≈ 409k–665k copies, ≈ $674k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 441 reviews in their first month; the range was 11 to 830.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Interactive Fiction (6 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Romance + Story Rich, priced around $6.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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