How much revenue did Sydney's World make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sydney's World sell?

Q: How many copies did Sydney's World sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut; from 50 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 Sydney's World out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sydney's World's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 53k–95k

best case 918k (Finding Paradise)

Games like Sydney's World

The middle of these games

≈ 53k–95k copies

≈ $418k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Finding Paradise at ≈ 699k–1.1M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 217 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (5 of 8) and Emotional (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Emotional, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Emotional; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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