How much revenue did Don't blame you make?

$449–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Don't blame you sell?

Q: How many copies did Don't blame you sell?

546 to 887 copies, based on its 22 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 546–887; $449–$1k after Steam's cut $816–$2k before the cut; from 22 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 Don't blame you out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Don't blame you's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 445k–696k

best case 783k (We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip)

Games like Don't blame you

The middle of these games

≈ 445k–696k copies

≈ $1.7M–$3.7M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: We Were Here Expeditions: The FriendShip at ≈ 597k–969k copies, ≈ $655k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Puzzle, priced around $4.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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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