How much revenue did Instrumentalist make?

$305–$826 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Instrumentalist sell?

Q: How many copies did Instrumentalist sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $305–$826 after Steam's cut $555–$1k before the cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Thin evidence: 3 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Instrumentalist out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Instrumentalist's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 412k–448k

best case 1.5M (Love Is All Around)

Games like Instrumentalist

The middle of these games

≈ 412k–448k copies

≈ $2.0M–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Love Is All Around at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.1M–$8.4M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 621 to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Visual Novel (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Choices Matter, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, 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 61 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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