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How many copies did The Way Home sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 347–564
$190–$511 after Steam's cut $345–$786 before the cut
from 14 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 The Way Home out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Way Home's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 497–3k
best case 207k (Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout)
Games like The Way Home

The middle of these games

≈ 497–3k copies

≈ $706–$3k after Steam's cut

from ~43 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Fears to Fathom - Ironbark Lookout at ≈ 158k–256k copies, ≈ $433k–$1.2M 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 32 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 1k.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Thriller + Atmospheric + Narrative; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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2023
Est. copies
≈ 158k–256k
150x vs typical
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$433k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $787k–$1.8M before the cut
$9.99
6k reviews
Very Positive
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Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike
2022
Est. copies
≈ 84k–137k
80x vs typical
SteamSpy 100k–200k
Est. revenue
$115k–$310k after Steam's cut $210k–$477k before the cut
$4.99
3k reviews
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ArcticBoy: The Interactive Story
2021
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≈ 3k–5k
2.8x vs typical
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$0.99
118 reviews
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RacingDriving
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$3.99
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