How many copies did STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son sell?

Q: How many copies did STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 41 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Q: How much revenue did STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son make?

$6k–$15k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before the cut; from 41 reviews (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 STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–8k

best case 13k (ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos)

Games like STAY ALIVE MY SON (VR): A True Story About A Father's Relentless Search For His Son

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–8k copies

≈ $4k–$87k after Steam's cut

from ~74 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos at ≈ 10k–17k copies, ≈ $84k–$225k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8 to 75.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (7 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Visual Novel, priced around $30.
The era: Only 1 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 36 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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TOKYO CHRONOS 2019	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $81k–$216k after Steam's cut $146k–$333k before the cut	$29.99	339 reviews Very Positive	VRVisual Novel
ALTDEUS: Beyond Chronos 2021	Est. copies ≈ 10k–17k 5.5x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $84k–$225k after Steam's cut $152k–$347k before the cut	$29.99	410 reviews Very Positive	VRVisual Novel
CURSED NIGHT - The House 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before the cut	$7.99	41 reviews Positive	HorrorVR
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Playing God 2020	Est. copies ≈ 893–1k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	36 reviews Mixed	VRInteractive Fiction
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