How much revenue did The Fall make?

$571k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Fall sell?

Q: How many copies did The Fall sell?

208k to 338k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 208k–338k; $571k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.4M before the cut; from 4k 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 The Fall out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Fall's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.2M–18.1M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like The Fall

The middle of these games

≈ 3.2M–18.1M copies

≈ $34.9M–$82.8M after Steam's cut

from ~80k 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: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and First-Person (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2004 to 2020, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Portal 2007	Est. copies ≈ 12.5M–20.4M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.6M after Steam's cut $62.6M–$142.5M before the cut	$9.99	198k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePuzzle-Platformer
Outer Wilds 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $18.2M–$48.9M after Steam's cut $33.1M–$75.3M before the cut	$24.99	107k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ExplorationSpace
Half-Life 2 2004	Est. copies ≈ 17.6M–28.6M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $48.3M–$130.0M after Steam's cut $87.9M–$200.0M before the cut	$9.99	278k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSAction
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.4M–47.8M 5.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut $147.0M–$334.4M before the cut	$9.99	466k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
Half-Life 2: Episode One 2006	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	31k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSAction
SOMA 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.1M–$56.7M after Steam's cut $38.4M–$87.3M before the cut	$29.99	52k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Half-Life 2: Episode Two 2007	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	41k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSAction
The Talos Principle 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–3.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $15.3M–$41.0M after Steam's cut $27.7M–$63.1M before the cut	$29.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePhilosophical