How much revenue did The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories make?

$361k–$969k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories sell?

Q: How many copies did The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories sell?

44k to 71k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 44k–71k; $361k–$969k after Steam's cut $656k–$1.5M before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 356k–884k

best case 1.5M (Assassin's Creed Valhalla)

Games like The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories

A typical game among these

≈ 356k–884k copies

≈ $1.8M–$10.9M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: Assassin's Creed Valhalla at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $18.5M–$49.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 800 reviews in their first month; the range was 611 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Vikings, priced around $60.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 38 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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