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How many copies did Alt-Frequencies sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 8k–13k
from 287 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 Alt-Frequencies out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alt-Frequencies's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 384k–666k
best case 1.1M (Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk)
Games like Alt-Frequencies

The middle of these games

≈ 384k–666k copies

≈ $1.0M–$2.6M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk at ≈ 850k–1.4M copies, ≈ $348k–$936k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 393 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 856.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Interactive Fiction (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $1.
The era
None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 61 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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