How much revenue did The Past Within make?

An estimated 656k to 1.8M net after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Past Within sell?

Q: How many copies did The Past Within sell?

An estimated 398k to 647k copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 398k–647k; $656k–$1.8M net $1.2M–$2.7M gross; from 17k reviews (Very 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 The Past Within out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Past Within's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.8M–5.9M

best case 31.6M (Portal 2)

The Multiplayer lane

A big, proven genre: most sell around 3.8M copies.

A typical game

≈ 3.8M copies

≈ $16.1M after Steam's cut

from ~81k reviews

Best case

≈ 31.6M copies

Portal 2 · ≈ $121.9M after Steam's cut

from 463k reviews

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count; typical figures are medians per column, so they can come from different games.

The lane you'd be entering

Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The games you compared span 2011 to 2021, a lane with a long track record.
A typical game here lands in Diamond ($1M+ before Steam's cut, est.). Tiers: Chris Zukowski's benchmark tiers.

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