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How big is Please Love My Computer Game?

Estimated players who have it
≈ 5k–8k
from 155 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 Please Love My Computer Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Please Love My Computer Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–6.4M
best case 12.1M (People Playground)
Games like Please Love My Computer Game

A typical game among these

≈ 2.9M–6.4M copies

≈ $34.7M–$70.9M after Steam's cut

from ~122k 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: People Playground at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 25k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 42k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Survival Horror (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 to 2024, 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).

Similar games

People Playground
2019
Est. copies
≈ 9.2M–15.0M
2.6x vs typical
SteamSpy 5M–10M
Est. revenue
$25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut $46.1M–$104.9M before Steam's cut
$9.99
321k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
SandboxGore
Resident Evil Village
2021
Est. copies
≈ 3.8M–6.2M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before Steam's cut
$39.99
155k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
Outlast 2
2017
Est. copies
≈ 2.2M–3.6M
SteamSpy 1M–2M
Est. revenue
$12.2M–$32.9M after Steam's cut $22.2M–$50.6M before Steam's cut
$19.99
65k reviews
Very Positive
Doki Doki Literature Club!
2017
Est. copies
≈ 7.9M–12.8M
1.9x vs typical
SteamSpy 5M–10M
Est. revenue
Free
Free
229k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
Resident Evil 3
2020
Est. copies
≈ 3.1M–5.1M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut $62.9M–$143.2M before Steam's cut
$39.99
127k reviews
Very Positive
ActionZombies
SILENT HILL 2
2024
Est. copies
≈ 1.6M–2.7M
SteamSpy 500k–1M
Est. revenue
$31.4M–$84.4M after Steam's cut $57.1M–$129.8M before Steam's cut
$69.99
66k reviews
Very Positive
Mortal Kombat 11
2019
Est. copies
≈ 3.4M–5.5M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$46.1M–$124.0M after Steam's cut $83.8M–$190.7M before Steam's cut
$49.99
116k reviews
Very Positive
FightingGore
DEVOUR
2021
Est. copies
≈ 2.2M–3.6M
SteamSpy 2M–5M
Est. revenue
$6.0M–$16.2M after Steam's cut $11.0M–$24.9M before Steam's cut
$9.99
88k reviews
Very Positive
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