How much revenue did Summer in Mara make?

$300k–$808k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Summer in Mara sell?

Q: How many copies did Summer in Mara sell?

55k to 89k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 55k–89k; $300k–$808k after Steam's cut $546k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Summer in Mara and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Summer in Mara's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 72k–96k

best case 188k (STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town)

Games like Summer in Mara

A typical game among these

≈ 72k–96k copies

≈ $531k–$875k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of Mineral Town at ≈ 143k–233k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 252 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Farming Sim (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Simulation, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Dating Sim + RPG + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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