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How many copies did START AGAIN: a prologue sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 17k–27k
$51k–$136k after Steam's cut $92k–$210k before the cut
from 676 reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left START AGAIN: a prologue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including START AGAIN: a prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 63k–161k
best case 442k (The Forgotten City)
Games like START AGAIN: a prologue

The middle of these games

≈ 63k–161k copies

≈ $405k–$1.4M 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: The Forgotten City at ≈ 337k–548k copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 196 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Time Travel + Mystery, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, 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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