How much revenue did Return home make?

$735–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Return home sell?

Q: How many copies did Return home sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $735–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 18 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 Return home out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Return home's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 40k–5.3M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like Return home

The middle of these games

≈ 40k–5.3M copies

≈ $80k–$38.7M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 19 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 21k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and 3D Platformer (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2024, and 2 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 79 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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Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.5M–20.4M 35x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.6M after Steam's cut $62.6M–$142.5M before the cut	$9.99	198k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.4M–47.8M 83x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut $147.0M–$334.4M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 1-4 2010	Est. copies ≈ 601k–977k 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.7M before the cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	LEGOAdventure
LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 8.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $16.5M–$44.4M after Steam's cut $30.0M–$68.3M before the cut	$49.99	48k reviews Very Positive	LEGOAdventure
Sunset Shapes 2020	Est. copies ≈ 496–806 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $408–$1k after Steam's cut $742–$2k before the cut	$2.99	20 reviews Positive	3D PlatformerPuzzle-Platformer
SMIB: Mission Cure 2020	Est. copies ≈ 645–1k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $353–$949 after Steam's cut $642–$1k before the cut	$1.99	26 reviews Positive	Early AccessSpace
LEGO® Harry Potter™ Collection 2024	Est. copies ≈ 41k–66k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $446k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $810k–$1.8M before the cut	$39.99	2k reviews Very Positive	CasualLEGO
Kiki 2024	Est. copies ≈ 42k–69k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $58k–$156k after Steam's cut $105k–$239k before the cut	$4.99	2k reviews Mostly Negative	Exploration3D Platformer