How much revenue did A Day - to bring them happiness make?

$169–$454 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Day - to bring them happiness sell?

Q: How many copies did A Day - to bring them happiness sell?

620 to 1k copies, based on its 25 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 620–1k; $169–$454 after Steam's cut $307–$699 before the cut; from 25 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 A Day - to bring them happiness out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Day - to bring them happiness's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 76k–102k

best case 826k (Braid)

Games like A Day - to bring them happiness

The middle of these games

≈ 76k–102k copies

≈ $262k–$608k 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.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Braid at ≈ 629k–1.0M copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 256 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 528.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle-Platformer (8 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle-Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry 2D Platformer + Indie + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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 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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