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How big is Sunflower Pie?

Estimated owners
≈ 4k–6k
from 144 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 Sunflower Pie out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sunflower Pie's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 76k–137k
best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)
Games like Sunflower Pie

The middle of these games

≈ 76k–137k copies

≈ $263k–$442k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of your 8 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 136 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 94 to 28k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel, priced around $6.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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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