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How many copies did Steam Link sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 360k–584k
from 7k reviews (Mostly 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 Steam Link out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Steam Link's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 121k–1.8M
best case 4.7M (Soundpad)
Games like Steam Link

The middle of these games

≈ 121k–1.8M copies

≈ $691k–$5.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Soundpad at ≈ 3.6M–5.8M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 363 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 Software (7 of 8) and Utilities (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Utilities + Audio Production, priced around $5.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, 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 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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