How much revenue did A Perfect Day make?

$250k–$672k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Perfect Day sell?

Q: How many copies did A Perfect Day sell?

45k to 74k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 45k–74k; $250k–$672k after Steam's cut $454k–$1.0M 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 A Perfect Day and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Perfect Day's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–1.5M

best case 8.6M (Detroit: Become Human)

Games like A Perfect Day

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–1.5M copies

≈ $8.0M–$22.0M after Steam's cut

from ~36k 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: Detroit: Become Human at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $72.1M–$193.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 332 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choices Matter (6 of 8) and Multiple Endings (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Emotional + Futuristic + Robots; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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 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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