How many copies did We Were Here sell?

1.1M to 1.9M copies, based on its 33k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did We Were Here make?

We Were Here is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is We Were Here?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 1.1M–1.9M; from 33k 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 We Were Here and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including We Were Here's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 477k–63.1M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like We Were Here

A typical game among these

≈ 477k–63.1M copies

≈ $1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (2 of 3) and Battle Royale (1 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Granny 2018	Est. copies ≈ 353k–574k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $776k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut	$7.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 227x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Cube Escape: Paradox 2018	Est. copies ≈ 373k–606k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleFree to Play