How much revenue did Absurd Story: Back Home make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Absurd Story: Back Home sell?

Q: How many copies did Absurd Story: Back Home sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut; from 50 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 Absurd Story: Back Home out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Absurd Story: Back Home's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 753k–2.5M

best case 2.7M (A Plague Tale: Innocence)

Games like Absurd Story: Back Home

The middle of these games

≈ 753k–2.5M copies

≈ $2.3M–$18.7M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: A Plague Tale: Innocence at ≈ 2.1M–3.3M copies, ≈ $22.6M–$60.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 516 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Stealth, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, and none of them 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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