How much revenue did To Make a Game make?

$540–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did To Make a Game sell?

Q: How many copies did To Make a Game sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 80 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $540–$1k after Steam's cut $982–$2k before the cut; from 80 reviews (Very 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 To Make a Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including To Make a Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 189k–249k

best case 1.5M (Love Is All Around)

Games like To Make a Game

The middle of these games

≈ 189k–249k copies

≈ $776k–$1.6M 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.

Best case: Love Is All Around at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $3.1M–$8.4M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 537 to 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (7 of 8) and Dating Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dating Sim + Sexual Content, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry FMV + First-Person + Sexual Content; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 2 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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