How much revenue did Gone Home make?

$4.8M–$12.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gone Home sell?

Q: How many copies did Gone Home sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $4.8M–$12.9M after Steam's cut $8.7M–$19.9M before the cut; from 18k reviews (Mostly 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 Gone Home out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gone Home's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–3.6M

best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)

Games like Gone Home

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–3.6M copies

≈ $19.1M–$20.9M after Steam's cut

from ~46k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–13.9M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2017. 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 that falls with release age, from about 43 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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Life is Strange - Episode 1 2015	Est. copies ≈ 8.6M–13.9M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	176k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichChoices Matter
INSIDE 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.1M–5.1M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.6M–$58.2M after Steam's cut $39.4M–$89.5M before the cut	$24.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2.5DPuzzle-Platformer
To the Moon 2012	Est. copies ≈ 5.5M–8.9M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.0M–$40.3M after Steam's cut $27.3M–$62.0M before the cut	$9.99	86k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichGreat Soundtrack
A Story About My Uncle 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.7M too small to compare SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $6.8M–$18.1M after Steam's cut $12.3M–$27.9M before the cut	$14.99	29k reviews Very Positive	AdventureFirst-Person
Firewatch 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.7M–$61.1M after Steam's cut $41.3M–$93.9M before the cut	$19.99	99k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAtmospheric
Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut $19.6M–$44.5M before the cut	$14.99	41k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAtmospheric
What Remains of Edith Finch 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $10.0M–$26.8M after Steam's cut $18.1M–$41.2M before the cut	$19.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichAtmospheric
The Stanley Parable 2013	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $11.9M–$32.1M after Steam's cut $21.7M–$49.3M before the cut	$14.99	46k reviews Very Positive	ComedyNarration