How much revenue did Somber Echoes make?

$35k–$93k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Somber Echoes sell?

Q: How many copies did Somber Echoes sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 340 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–14k; $35k–$93k after Steam's cut $63k–$144k before the cut; from 340 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 Somber Echoes out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Somber Echoes's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 216k–283k

best case 913k (Night in the Woods)

Games like Somber Echoes

The middle of these games

≈ 216k–283k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Night in the Woods at ≈ 695k–1.1M copies, ≈ $3.8M–$10.3M 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 171 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 2D Platformer (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Dark Humor, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Stylized + Dark Humor + Choices Matter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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