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How big is The Space in Between?

Estimated owners
≈ 3k–5k
from 124 reviews (Very 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 The Space in Between out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Space in Between's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 155k–733k
best case 1.1M (Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk)
Games like The Space in Between

The middle of these games

≈ 155k–733k copies

≈ $558k–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk at ≈ 850k–1.4M copies, ≈ $348k–$936k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 210 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 165 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Interactive Fiction (5 of 8) and Experimental (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $1.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, 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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