How much revenue did Virtual Journey Into the Metaverse make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Virtual Journey Into the Metaverse sell?

Q: How many copies did Virtual Journey Into the Metaverse sell?

794 to 1k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 794–1k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut; from 32 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 Virtual Journey Into the Metaverse out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Virtual Journey Into the Metaverse's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 135k–335k

best case 845k (There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension)

Games like Virtual Journey Into the Metaverse

The middle of these games

≈ 135k–335k copies

≈ $1.0M–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Multiple Endings (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension at ≈ 644k–1.0M 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 421 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Multiple Endings (3 of 8) and Puzzle (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Point & Click + Puzzle, priced around $13.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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