How much revenue did Stray make?

$36.3M–$97.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stray sell?

Q: How many copies did Stray sell?

4.4M to 7.2M copies, based on its 177k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.4M–7.2M; $36.3M–$97.6M after Steam's cut $66.0M–$150.1M before the cut; from 177k 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 Stray out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stray's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 535k–1.1M

best case 1.5M (Nine Sols)

Games like Stray

The middle of these games

≈ 535k–1.1M copies

≈ $2.1M–$7.9M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Nine Sols at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $9.2M–$24.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Anime (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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 79 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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NEKOPARA Vol. 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 535k–869k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.5M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before the cut	$9.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeSexual Content
NEKOPARA Vol. 1 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.5M before the cut	$9.99	27k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HentaiAnime
Desperados III 2020	Est. copies ≈ 411k–668k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.1M after Steam's cut $8.2M–$18.7M before the cut	$39.99	17k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Real Time TacticsStrategy
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Nine Sols 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.7M after Steam's cut $16.7M–$38.1M before the cut	$29.99	45k reviews Very Positive	Metroidvania Souls-like
NEKOPARA Vol. 3 2017	Est. copies ≈ 414k–672k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.7M before the cut	$9.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HentaiSexual Content
A Space for the Unbound 2023	Est. copies ≈ 193k–314k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.4M before the cut	$19.99	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichPixel Graphics
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