How much revenue did Eastshade make?

$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Eastshade sell?

Q: How many copies did Eastshade sell?

159k to 258k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 159k–258k; $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Eastshade and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Eastshade's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.0M–4.7M

best case 4.8M (Ori and the Will of the Wisps)

Games like Eastshade

A typical game among these

≈ 4.0M–4.7M copies

≈ $44.7M–$82.0M 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: Ori and the Will of the Wisps at ≈ 3.6M–5.9M copies, ≈ $30.0M–$80.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 23k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 30k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (6 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beautiful + Metroidvania, priced around $30.
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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