How much revenue did The Past Within make?

$686k–$1.8M 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?

417k to 677k copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 417k–677k; $686k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before the cut; 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) 2.9M–4.3M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like The Past Within

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–4.3M copies

≈ $10.0M–$16.9M after Steam's cut

from ~74k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M 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 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 31k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (3 of 8) and Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Puzzle + Story Rich + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2021, 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 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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Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.4M–47.8M 6.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut $147.0M–$334.4M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.2M–$24.6M after Steam's cut $16.7M–$37.9M before the cut	$14.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MultiplayerParty
Soundpad 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.3M before the cut	$4.99	104k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	UtilitiesAudio Production
It Takes Two 2021	Est. copies ≈ 6.7M–10.8M 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $73.2M–$196.7M after Steam's cut $133.0M–$302.7M before the cut	$39.99	268k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
Besiege 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.5M before the cut	$14.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationSandbox
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DEVOUR 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.0M–$16.1M after Steam's cut $10.9M–$24.8M before the cut	$9.99	88k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
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