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How many copies did Far Away Horse sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 570–927
$155–$417 after Steam's cut $282–$642 before the cut
from 23 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 Far Away Horse out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Far Away Horse's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 770k–1.5M
best case 1.7M (My Time at Portia)
Games like Far Away Horse

The middle of these games

≈ 770k–1.5M copies

≈ $10.3M–$14.9M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: My Time at Portia at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.5M–$28.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 20 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 9 to 19k.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Exploration (7 of 8) and Life Sim (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Life Sim + Open World, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 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 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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