How much revenue did Only Straight and Up! make?

$956–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Only Straight and Up! sell?

Q: How many copies did Only Straight and Up! sell?

174 to 282 copies, based on its 7 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 174–282; $956–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 7 reviews (7 user reviews); Thin evidence: 7 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Only Straight and Up! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Only Straight and Up!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 195k–686k

best case 821k (The Crew Motorfest)

Games like Only Straight and Up!

The middle of these games

≈ 195k–686k copies

≈ $360k–$7.7M 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: The Crew Motorfest at ≈ 626k–1.0M copies, ≈ $12.0M–$32.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 376 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 117 to 728.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Arcade (8 of 8) and Sports (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $70.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 1 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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