How much revenue did Smile For Me make?

$307k–$825k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Smile For Me sell?

Q: How many copies did Smile For Me sell?

86k to 140k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 86k–140k; $307k–$825k after Steam's cut $558k–$1.3M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Smile For Me out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Smile For Me's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.6M–5.5M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like Smile For Me

The middle of these games

≈ 4.6M–5.5M copies

≈ $26.7M–$44.0M after Steam's cut

from ~142k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 64k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (7 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Platformer + Dark Humor + Funny; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2024, and 2 of your 8 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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