How much revenue did Help Will Come Tomorrow make?

$128k–$345k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Help Will Come Tomorrow sell?

Q: How many copies did Help Will Come Tomorrow sell?

23k to 38k copies, based on its 942 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–38k; $128k–$345k after Steam's cut $234k–$531k before the cut; from 942 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 Help Will Come Tomorrow out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Help Will Come Tomorrow's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–5.9M

best case 7.6M (Factorio)

Games like Help Will Come Tomorrow

The middle of these games

≈ 2.1M–5.9M copies

≈ $22.0M–$57.4M after Steam's cut

from ~76k 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: Factorio at ≈ 5.8M–9.4M copies, ≈ $55.8M–$150.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (6 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Base-Building, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 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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