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How many copies did Left Alone sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 27k–44k
$52k–$139k after Steam's cut $94k–$213k before the cut
from 645 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 Left Alone out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Left Alone's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–3.8M
best case 3.8M (GRIS)
Games like Left Alone

The middle of these games

≈ 2.4M–3.8M copies

≈ $21.1M–$30.8M after Steam's cut

from ~49k 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: GRIS at ≈ 2.9M–4.8M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on First-Person (5 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Beautiful + Female Protagonist, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 to 2018, 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 38 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).

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