How much revenue did Departed Away make?

$19k–$52k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Departed Away sell?

Q: How many copies did Departed Away sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 568 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $19k–$52k after Steam's cut $35k–$80k before the cut; from 568 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 Departed Away out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Departed Away's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 664k–1.1M

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Departed Away

The middle of these games

≈ 664k–1.1M copies

≈ $4.4M–$7.6M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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: 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Dating Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Horror + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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