How much revenue did TOEM: A Photo Adventure make?

$1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did TOEM: A Photo Adventure sell?

Q: How many copies did TOEM: A Photo Adventure sell?

298k to 485k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 298k–485k; $1.6M–$4.4M after Steam's cut $3.0M–$6.8M before the cut; from 12k 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 TOEM: A Photo Adventure out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TOEM: A Photo Adventure's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 350k–511k

best case 1.9M (PowerWash Simulator)

Games like TOEM: A Photo Adventure

The middle of these games

≈ 350k–511k copies

≈ $1.9M–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: PowerWash Simulator at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $10.0M–$26.8M 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 444 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cozy (6 of 8) and Wholesome (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + First-Person, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Simulation + First-Person + 3D; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 2 of your 8 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 43 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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