How much revenue did Talk to Strangers make?

$20k–$53k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Talk to Strangers sell?

Q: How many copies did Talk to Strangers sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 500 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $20k–$53k after Steam's cut $36k–$82k before Steam's cut; from 500 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 Talk to Strangers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Talk to Strangers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–11k

best case 70k (Wild West Legacy)

Games like Talk to Strangers

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–11k copies

≈ $6k–$10k after Steam's cut

from ~253 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Wild West Legacy at ≈ 53k–86k copies, ≈ $395k–$1.1M 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 122 reviews in their first month; the range was 76 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Multiple Endings (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Western + Simulation, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Western + Open World + Crafting; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 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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