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How big is Welcome to Emba?

Estimated owners
≈ 1k–2k
from 48 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 Welcome to Emba out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Welcome to Emba's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 160k–634k
best case 1.5M (Nine Sols)
Games like Welcome to Emba

The middle of these games

≈ 160k–634k copies

≈ $901k–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Story Rich (3 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: 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 18 to 11k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (3 of 8) and Exploration (2 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 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 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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