How much revenue did Bright Memory make?

$1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Bright Memory sell?

Q: How many copies did Bright Memory sell?

821k to 1.3M copies, based on its 33k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 821k–1.3M; $1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.5M before Steam's cut; from 33k 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 Bright Memory and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bright Memory's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 224k–1.3M

best case 1.3M (Bright Memory: Infinite)

Games like Bright Memory

A typical game among these

≈ 224k–1.3M copies

≈ $1.6M–$11.2M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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: Bright Memory: Infinite at ≈ 990k–1.6M copies, ≈ $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 21k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sexual Content (5 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Female Protagonist + Sexual Content, priced around $20.
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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Sudeki 2014	Est. copies ≈ 62k–100k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $101k–$273k after Steam's cut $184k–$420k before Steam's cut	$5.99	1k reviews Very Positive	RPGAdventure
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SENRAN KAGURA ESTIVAL VERSUS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 190k–309k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	6k reviews Very Positive	NuditySexual Content
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