How much revenue did Dear Friend make?

$7–$18 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dear Friend sell?

Q: How many copies did Dear Friend sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $7–$18 after Steam's cut $12–$28 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. 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 Dear Friend out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dear Friend's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 161k–533k

best case 869k (A Plague Tale: Requiem)

Games like Dear Friend

The middle of these games

≈ 161k–533k copies

≈ $1.0M–$9.3M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: A Plague Tale: Requiem at ≈ 662k–1.1M copies, ≈ $9.1M–$24.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 4k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (6 of 8) and Education (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + Exploration, priced around $50.
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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