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How many copies did La Jetée sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 298–484
$81–$218 after Steam's cut $148–$335 before the cut
from 12 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 La Jetée out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including La Jetée's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–57k
best case 3.3M (The Wolf Among Us)
Games like La Jetée

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–57k copies

≈ $7k–$330k after Steam's cut

from ~279 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Wolf Among Us at ≈ 2.5M–4.1M copies, ≈ $10.4M–$28.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 141 reviews in their first month.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Detective + Story Rich, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 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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