How much revenue did A Forgetful Loop make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Forgetful Loop sell?

Q: How many copies did A Forgetful Loop sell?

273 to 443 copies, based on its 11 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 273–443; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 11 reviews (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 A Forgetful Loop out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Forgetful Loop's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–25k

best case 202k (Uplink)

Games like A Forgetful Loop

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–25k copies

≈ $52k–$108k after Steam's cut

from ~374 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Uplink at ≈ 154k–250k copies, ≈ $508k–$1.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (6 of 8) and Sci-fi (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sci-fi, priced around $12. The breakout hits carry Open World + Sci-fi + Psychedelic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2022, 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 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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