How much revenue did PhotoWorld make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PhotoWorld sell?

Q: How many copies did PhotoWorld sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 21 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 PhotoWorld out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PhotoWorld's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–100k

best case 237k (35MM)

Games like PhotoWorld

The middle of these games

≈ 32k–100k copies

≈ $255k–$581k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Open World (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: 35MM at ≈ 181k–294k copies, ≈ $447k–$1.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 410 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 20 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (4 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Walking Simulator, priced around $9.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 3 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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