How much revenue did In Your Books make?

$695–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did In Your Books sell?

Q: How many copies did In Your Books sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $695–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 17 reviews (Mostly 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 In Your Books out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including In Your Books's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 100k–150k

best case 4.2M (Helltaker)

Games like In Your Books

The middle of these games

≈ 100k–150k copies

≈ $353k–$797k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Helltaker at ≈ 3.2M–5.2M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 790 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Detective (6 of 8) and Visual Novel (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Demons + Puzzle, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Anime + Great Soundtrack + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2021, 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 70 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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