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How many copies did Myha: Return to the Lost Island sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut
from 55 reviews (Mostly 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 Myha: Return to the Lost Island and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Myha: Return to the Lost Island's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–3.1M
best case 3.5M (Outer Wilds)
Games like Myha: Return to the Lost Island

A typical game among these

≈ 2.0M–3.1M copies

≈ $13.6M–$26.7M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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: Outer Wilds at ≈ 2.7M–4.4M copies, ≈ $18.5M–$49.7M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 392 to 5k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share First-Person (5 of 8) and Puzzle (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Exploration + Space, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Space + Mystery + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2009 to 2022, and none of them 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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