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How many copies did YOKO sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 446–725
$1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before the cut
from 18 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left YOKO out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including YOKO's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 433k–1.4M
best case 6.0M (SPORE™)
Games like YOKO

The middle of these games

≈ 433k–1.4M copies

≈ $2.5M–$14.8M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SPORE™ at ≈ 4.6M–7.5M copies, ≈ $25.2M–$67.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 116 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 4k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Exploration (5 of 8) and Cinematic (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with God Game + Open World, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2008 to 2022, 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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