How much revenue did Echoes of Yi : Samsara make?

$77k–$206k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Echoes of Yi : Samsara sell?

Q: How many copies did Echoes of Yi : Samsara sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 562 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $77k–$206k after Steam's cut $139k–$317k before the cut; from 562 reviews (Mixed)

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 Echoes of Yi : Samsara out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Echoes of Yi : Samsara's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 98k–134k

best case 203k (The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me)

Games like Echoes of Yi : Samsara

The middle of these games

≈ 98k–134k copies

≈ $915k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me at ≈ 155k–251k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 742 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 189 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action-Adventure (5 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Multiple Endings, priced around $40.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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