How much revenue did Spirits make?

$18k–$49k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spirits sell?

Q: How many copies did Spirits sell?

17k to 27k copies, based on its 262 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–27k; $18k–$49k after Steam's cut $33k–$75k before the cut; from 262 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 418k–632k

best case 1.1M (FAR: Lone Sails)

Games like Spirits

The middle of these games

≈ 418k–632k copies

≈ $2.5M–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~16k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FAR: Lone Sails at ≈ 802k–1.3M copies, ≈ $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 361 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 20 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (6 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Post-apocalyptic + Exploration, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, 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 38 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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