How much revenue did The Gardens Between make?

$461k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Gardens Between sell?

Q: How many copies did The Gardens Between sell?

84k to 136k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 84k–136k; $461k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $838k–$1.9M before the cut; from 3k 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 The Gardens Between out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Gardens Between's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–7.2M

best case 11.3M (Life is Strange - Episode 1)

Games like The Gardens Between

The middle of these games

≈ 2.4M–7.2M copies

≈ $19.5M–$23.0M after Steam's cut

from ~53k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Life is Strange - Episode 1 at ≈ 8.6M–13.9M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Emotional (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, and 2 of your 8 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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