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

$359k–$965k 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; $359k–$965k after Steam's cut $653k–$1.5M before the cut; from 1k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories out and predicted the genre 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, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 352k–882k

best case 1.5M (Assassin's Creed Valhalla)

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

The middle of these games

≈ 352k–882k copies

≈ $1.8M–$10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~16k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Assassin's Creed Valhalla at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $18.4M–$49.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Vikings, priced around $60.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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