How much revenue did Facing make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Facing sell?

Q: How many copies did Facing sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 26 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 Facing out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Facing's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–24k

best case 32k (Gravity Field)

Games like Facing

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–24k copies

≈ $17k–$124k after Steam's cut

from ~408 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 Sports (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: Gravity Field at ≈ 24k–39k copies, ≈ $198k–$533k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 236 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 324.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sports (4 of 8) and 4 Player Local (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Science, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, 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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Play With Me: Escape Room 2018	Est. copies ≈ 16k–27k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$56k before the cut	$2.99	538 reviews Mixed	MysteryAtmospheric
Can't Drive This 2021	Est. copies ≈ 9k–14k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $48k–$128k after Steam's cut $87k–$197k before the cut	$19.99	350 reviews Very Positive	Local Co-OpLocal Multiplayer
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Ultra Space Battle Brawl 2018	Est. copies ≈ 3k–6k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$39k before the cut	$9.99	112 reviews Very Positive	SportsAction
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