How much revenue did You Must make?

$7k–$20k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did You Must sell?

Q: How many copies did You Must sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 537 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $7k–$20k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before the cut; from 537 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 You Must out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including You Must's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 139k–357k

best case 2.1M (Chained Together)

Games like You Must

The middle of these games

≈ 139k–357k copies

≈ $987k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Chained Together at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 518 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (6 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Platformer, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Co-op + Casual + Puzzle-Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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 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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