How much revenue did Ticket make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ticket sell?

Q: How many copies did Ticket sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 55 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 55 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 Ticket and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ticket's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–431k

best case 3.6M (The Last of Us™ Part I)

Games like Ticket

A typical game among these

≈ 44k–431k copies

≈ $1.6M–$5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Anime (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: The Last of Us™ Part I at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $45.1M–$121.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Anime (3 of 8) and Emotional (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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 43 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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