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How many copies did RealEscape sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 298–484
$409–$1k after Steam's cut $744–$2k before the cut
from 12 reviews (Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 391–2k
best case 10k (Transpose)
Games like RealEscape

The middle of these games

≈ 391–2k copies

≈ $414–$7k after Steam's cut

from ~21 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: Transpose at ≈ 8k–13k copies.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 49 reviews in their first month.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle-Platformer (8 of 8) and Time Management (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with VR + Puzzle-Platformer.
The era
The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 1 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 38 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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