How much revenue did Moving Through Life make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Moving Through Life sell?

Q: How many copies did Moving Through Life sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 79 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut; from 79 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 Moving Through Life out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Moving Through Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 179k–272k

best case 402k (Hello Kitty Island Adventure)

Games like Moving Through Life

The middle of these games

≈ 179k–272k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.9M 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.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Hello Kitty Island Adventure at ≈ 306k–497k copies, ≈ $3.4M–$9.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 896 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 485 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cozy (7 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cozy + Open World, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 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 36 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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