How many copies did Left on Read sell?

130k to 211k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Left on Read make?

Left on Read is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Left on Read?

Estimated owners: ≈ 130k–211k; from 5k 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 Left on Read out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Left on Read's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 738k–1.1M

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like Left on Read

The middle of these games

≈ 738k–1.1M copies

≈ $1.6M–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~17k 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 Romance (3 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: The Sims™ 4 at ≈ 5.0M–8.0M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Romance (3 of 8) and Simulation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Life Sim + Character Customization; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 61 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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Emily is Away 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	32k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayStory Rich
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