How much revenue did Experimentation make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Experimentation sell?

Q: How many copies did Experimentation sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 98 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before the cut; from 98 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 Experimentation out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Experimentation's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12k–120k

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Experimentation

The middle of these games

≈ 12k–120k copies

≈ $40k–$520k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

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

Best case: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 87 to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dark (8 of 8) and Visual Novel (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Dark, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Multiple Endings + Dating Sim + Choices Matter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 61 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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