How much revenue did The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is sell?

Q: How many copies did The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 297 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$17k before the cut; from 297 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 Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 622k–1.5M

best case 1.6M (Volcano Princess)

Games like The Journey - Episode 1: Whatever This Is

The middle of these games

≈ 622k–1.5M copies

≈ $2.6M–$7.4M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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.

Best case: Volcano Princess at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies, ≈ $3.7M–$9.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choices Matter (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Multiple Endings, priced around $11.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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