How much revenue did Forgotton Anne make?

$343k–$922k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Forgotton Anne sell?

Q: How many copies did Forgotton Anne sell?

62k to 101k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 62k–101k; $343k–$922k after Steam's cut $623k–$1.4M before the cut; from 2k 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 Forgotton Anne out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Forgotton Anne's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 819k–2.0M

best case 3.8M (GRIS)

Games like Forgotton Anne

The middle of these games

≈ 819k–2.0M copies

≈ $4.9M–$20.6M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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.

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 401 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Hand-drawn (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Beautiful + Female Protagonist, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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GRIS 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.8M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.9M before the cut	$14.99	96k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	BeautifulAtmospheric
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.9M–$29.3M after Steam's cut $19.8M–$45.0M before the cut	$29.99	53k reviews Very Positive	EmotionalStory Rich
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