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How many copies did An Outcry sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 3k–5k
$8k–$23k after Steam's cut $15k–$35k before the cut
from 124 reviews (Very 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 An Outcry out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including An Outcry's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–2.9M
best case 21.7M (Undertale)
Games like An Outcry

The middle of these games

≈ 2.0M–2.9M copies

≈ $11.6M–$22.2M after Steam's cut

from ~64k 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: Undertale at ≈ 16.5M–26.8M copies, ≈ $45.3M–$121.9M 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 11k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 24k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Multiple Endings (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Choices Matter + Funny + RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 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 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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