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How big is Interactive Empathy?

Estimated owners
≈ 422–685
from 17 reviews (Mixed)

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 Interactive Empathy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Interactive Empathy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–12k
best case 20k (All You Can Eat)
Games like Interactive Empathy

The middle of these games

≈ 2k–12k copies

≈ $15k–$25k after Steam's cut

from ~168 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Comic Book (4 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: All You Can Eat at ≈ 15k–24k copies, ≈ $8k–$22k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 31 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14 to 66.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Comic Book (4 of 8) and Experimental (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Point & Click + Comic Book, priced around $2.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 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 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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