How much revenue did Of Bird and Cage make?

$16k–$42k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Of Bird and Cage sell?

Q: How many copies did Of Bird and Cage sell?

6k to 9k copies, based on its 228 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–9k; $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $28k–$64k before the cut; from 228 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 Of Bird and Cage out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Of Bird and Cage's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–131k

best case 533k (Florence)

Games like Of Bird and Cage

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–131k copies

≈ $16k–$642k after Steam's cut

from ~575 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Florence at ≈ 406k–660k copies, ≈ $669k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 441 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 832.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Interactive Fiction (6 of 8) and Female Protagonist (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Romance + Story Rich, priced around $6.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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