How much revenue did Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) make?

$355k–$954k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) sell?

Q: How many copies did Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) sell?

259k to 420k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 259k–420k; $355k–$954k after Steam's cut $645k–$1.5M before the cut; from 9k 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 Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 68k–142k

best case 196k (LOST EMBER)

Games like Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to)

The middle of these games

≈ 68k–142k copies

≈ $513k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: LOST EMBER at ≈ 149k–242k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 537 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 27 to 838.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cozy (5 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Story Rich, priced around $30.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 36 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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