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How big is Close Your Eyes [Old Version]?

Estimated owners
≈ 38k–62k
from 782 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 Close Your Eyes [Old Version] out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Close Your Eyes [Old Version]'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 160k–226k
best case 666k (Her Story)
Games like Close Your Eyes [Old Version]

The middle of these games

≈ 160k–226k copies

≈ $999k–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: Her Story at ≈ 507k–824k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 635 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 171 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (7 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Investigation + Typing, priced around $10.
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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Her Story
2015
Est. copies
≈ 507k–824k
1.6x vs typical
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before the cut
$9.99
10k reviews
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InvestigationTyping
Heaven's Vault
2019
Est. copies
≈ 72k–116k
too small to compare
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$492k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $894k–$2.0M before the cut
$24.99
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2022
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≈ 131k–213k
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Word Game
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Est. copies
≈ 159k–259k
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$1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.8M–$6.3M before the cut
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2021
Est. copies
≈ 159k–259k
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$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before the cut
$24.99
6k reviews
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≈ 94k–153k
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$310k–$833k after Steam's cut $564k–$1.3M before the cut
$11.99
4k reviews
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THE LONGING
2020
Est. copies
≈ 184k–300k
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