How much revenue did When The Past Was Around make?

$241k–$647k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did When The Past Was Around sell?

Q: How many copies did When The Past Was Around sell?

110k to 178k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 110k–178k; $241k–$647k after Steam's cut $438k–$996k before the cut; from 4k 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 When The Past Was Around out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including When The Past Was Around's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 69k–176k

best case 1.3M (Unpacking)

Games like When The Past Was Around

The middle of these games

≈ 69k–176k copies

≈ $476k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Point & Click (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Unpacking at ≈ 1.0M–1.6M copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.9M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 618 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Point & Click (4 of 8) and Puzzle (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Cute + Casual + Pixel Graphics; a typical game here doesn't.
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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