How much revenue did Forgive Me Father make?

$821k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Forgive Me Father sell?

Q: How many copies did Forgive Me Father sell?

149k to 243k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149k–243k; $821k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut; from 6k 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 Forgive Me Father out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Forgive Me Father's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–465k

best case 1.0M (DUSK)

Games like Forgive Me Father

The middle of these games

≈ 30k–465k copies

≈ $326k–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: DUSK at ≈ 774k–1.3M copies, ≈ $4.3M–$11.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 584 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 60 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (8 of 8) and FPS (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Boomer Shooter + FPS, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2025, 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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