How much revenue did The Forgotten City make?

$2.3M–$6.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Forgotten City sell?

Q: How many copies did The Forgotten City sell?

341k to 554k copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 341k–554k; $2.3M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.3M–$9.7M before Steam's cut; from 14k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Forgotten City and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Forgotten City's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–57k

best case 337k (Enigma of Fear)

Games like The Forgotten City

A typical game among these

≈ 26k–57k copies

≈ $89k–$254k after Steam's cut

from ~958 reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Enigma of Fear at ≈ 257k–417k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M 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 386 reviews in their first month; the range was 103 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Mystery (6 of 8) and Point & Click (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mystery + Puzzle, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Supernatural + Detective + Survival Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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