How much revenue did Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love make?

$68k–$183k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love sell?

Q: How many copies did Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 429 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $68k–$183k after Steam's cut $123k–$281k before Steam's cut; from 429 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 Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–46k

best case 143k (Kandidatos)

Games like Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

A typical game among these

≈ 19k–46k copies

≈ $35k–$99k after Steam's cut

from ~791 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Satire (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Kandidatos at ≈ 109k–177k copies, ≈ $30k–$80k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 121 reviews in their first month; the range was 24 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Satire (4 of 8) and Dark Comedy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + Political, priced around $1.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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