How much revenue did Whispers of a Machine make?

$240k–$645k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Whispers of a Machine sell?

Q: How many copies did Whispers of a Machine sell?

58k to 95k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 58k–95k; $240k–$645k after Steam's cut $436k–$992k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Whispers of a Machine and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Whispers of a Machine's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.9M–6.8M

best case 6.7M (Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition)

Games like Whispers of a Machine

A typical game among these

≈ 4.9M–6.8M copies

≈ $50.9M–$78.1M after Steam's cut

from ~136k 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.

Best case: Grand Theft Auto IV: The Complete Edition at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $27.9M–$75.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the range was 11k to 58k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (5 of 8) and Third Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Automobile Sim, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 79 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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