How much revenue did Fleeting Iris make?

$77k–$207k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fleeting Iris sell?

Q: How many copies did Fleeting Iris sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 564 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $77k–$207k after Steam's cut $140k–$318k before the cut; from 564 reviews (Mostly 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 Fleeting Iris out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fleeting Iris's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 744k–1.1M

best case 2.8M (SteamVR)

Games like Fleeting Iris

The middle of these games

≈ 744k–1.1M copies

≈ $5.7M–$8.6M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Simulation (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: SteamVR at ≈ 2.1M–3.5M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 10k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (4 of 8) and Visual Novel (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Software, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Software + Utilities + 3D; 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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