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How big is There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015?

Estimated owners
≈ 187k–303k
from 8k 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 There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015 out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18.2M–39.6M
best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

The middle of these games

≈ 18.2M–39.6M copies

≈ $81.4M–$87.7M after Steam's cut

from ~572k reviews

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

All 7 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Battle Royale (2 of 7), 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Battle Royale (2 of 7) and Co-op (2 of 7).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Shooter + FPS + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2020, 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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