How much revenue did ARIDA: Backland's Awakening make?

$21k–$57k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ARIDA: Backland's Awakening sell?

Q: How many copies did ARIDA: Backland's Awakening sell?

23k to 37k copies, based on its 792 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–37k; $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $39k–$88k before Steam's cut; from 792 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 ARIDA: Backland's Awakening and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ARIDA: Backland's Awakening's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 198k–2.3M

best case 7.5M (Assassin's Creed® Odyssey)

Games like ARIDA: Backland's Awakening

A typical game among these

≈ 198k–2.3M copies

≈ $2.1M–$33.6M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Assassin's Creed® Odyssey at ≈ 5.7M–9.3M copies, ≈ $94.8M–$254.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 771 reviews in their first month; the range was 366 to 938.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (5 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Historical, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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Assassin's Creed® Odyssey 2018	Est. copies ≈ 5.7M–9.3M 21x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $94.8M–$254.9M after Steam's cut $172.4M–$392.1M before Steam's cut	$59.99	189k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG
Assassin's Creed® Syndicate 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.4M–$35.9M after Steam's cut $24.3M–$55.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	33k reviews Very Positive	AssassinOpen World
Game of Thrones - A Telltale Games Series 2014	Est. copies ≈ 593k–964k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Mostly Positive	Story RichEpisodic
Syberia: The World Before 2022	Est. copies ≈ 125k–204k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$39.99	5k reviews Very Positive	AdventureStory Rich
A Plague Tale: Innocence 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.4M 8.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $23.1M–$62.1M after Steam's cut $42.0M–$95.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	73k reviews Very Positive	Story RichAdventure
Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth 2017	Est. copies ≈ 262k–425k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	Choices MatterAdventure
Call of the Sea 2020	Est. copies ≈ 159k–259k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $875k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Very Positive	AdventurePuzzle
My Vow to My Liege 2020	Est. copies ≈ 102k–165k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $280k–$752k after Steam's cut $509k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Female ProtagonistRomance