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How many copies did This rain will never end - noir adventure detective sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 471–766
$2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut
from 19 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left This rain will never end - noir adventure detective out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including This rain will never end - noir adventure detective's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–100k
best case 225k (1000xRESIST)
Games like This rain will never end - noir adventure detective

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–100k copies

≈ $40k–$546k after Steam's cut

from ~482 reviews

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

3 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: 1000xRESIST at ≈ 172k–279k copies, ≈ $944k–$2.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 152 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 33 to 505.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (3 of 8) and Thriller (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Female Protagonist + Thriller, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, 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 43 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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