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 791 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 the cut; from 791 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left ARIDA: Backland's Awakening out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ARIDA: Backland's Awakening's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 197k–2.3M

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

Games like ARIDA: Backland's Awakening

The middle of these games

≈ 197k–2.3M copies

≈ $2.1M–$33.3M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Assassin's Creed® Odyssey at ≈ 5.7M–9.3M copies, ≈ $94.4M–$253.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 773 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 366 to 939.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Historical, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared 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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