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How many copies did Just Ignore Them sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 56k–92k
$62k–$166k after Steam's cut $112k–$256k before Steam's cut
from 2k 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 Just Ignore Them and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Just Ignore Them's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–3.3M
best case 4.8M (Inscryption)
Games like Just Ignore Them

A typical game among these

≈ 2.4M–3.3M copies

≈ $14.9M–$32.4M after Steam's cut

from ~67k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Story Rich (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.3M–$54.6M 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 7k to 20k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Story Rich (3 of 8) and First-Person (2 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Card Battler + Card Game, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Card Battler + Card Game + Deckbuilding; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 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 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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