How much revenue did Forest Fire make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Forest Fire sell?

Q: How many copies did Forest Fire sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 76 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut; from 76 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 Forest Fire out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Forest Fire's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 44k–296k

best case 13.7M (R.E.P.O.)

Games like Forest Fire

The middle of these games

≈ 44k–296k copies

≈ $365k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is 3D Platformer (2 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: R.E.P.O. at ≈ 10.4M–17.0M copies, ≈ $28.7M–$77.0M 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 430 to 67k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 3D Platformer (2 of 8) and Comedy (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Comedy, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Horror + Online Co-Op + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2020 to 2026, and 3 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 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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