How many copies did flaming/million sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did flaming/million make?

flaming/million is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is flaming/million?

Estimated owners: ≈ 248–403; from 10 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 flaming/million out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including flaming/million's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 315k–471k

best case 659k (BONELAB)

Games like flaming/million

The middle of these games

≈ 315k–471k copies

≈ $1.2M–$4.1M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Visual Novel (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: BONELAB at ≈ 502k–816k copies, ≈ $5.5M–$14.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 636 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 100 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (4 of 8) and LGBTQ+ (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Physics, priced around $40.
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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