How much revenue did High On Life make?

$7.0M–$18.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did High On Life sell?

Q: How many copies did High On Life sell?

634k to 1.0M copies, based on its 26k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 634k–1.0M; $7.0M–$18.7M after Steam's cut $12.7M–$28.8M before the cut; from 26k 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 High On Life out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including High On Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32k–15.0M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like High On Life

The middle of these games

≈ 32k–15.0M copies

≈ $75k–$70.2M after Steam's cut

from ~23k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 732 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dark Humor (7 of 8) and First-Person (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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