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How big is We Were Here?

Estimated owners
≈ 1.1M–1.8M
from 33k 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 We Were Here out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including We Were Here's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 468k–62.3M
best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like We Were Here

The middle of these games

≈ 468k–62.3M copies

≈ $1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

All 3 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (2 of 3) and Battle Royale (1 of 3).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era
None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.
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 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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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
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226x vs typical
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