How much revenue did THE LONGING make?

$764k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did THE LONGING sell?

Q: How many copies did THE LONGING sell?

185k to 301k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 185k–301k; $764k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut; from 7k 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 THE LONGING and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including THE LONGING's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 503k–668k

best case 1.6M (Life is Strange 2)

Games like THE LONGING

A typical game among these

≈ 503k–668k copies

≈ $2.4M–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Life is Strange 2 at ≈ 1.3M–2.0M copies. 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 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 722 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choices Matter (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Atmospheric; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, 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 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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