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How many copies did Plank not included sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$5k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before the cut
from 48 reviews (Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Plank not included out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Plank not included's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 41k–109k
best case 131k (Heaven Island - VR MMO)
Games like Plank not included

The middle of these games

≈ 41k–109k copies

≈ $271k–$613k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Heaven Island - VR MMO at ≈ 100k–162k copies, ≈ $54k–$146k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 8 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 486.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on VR (8 of 8) and Walking Simulator (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Walking Simulator + VR, priced around $2.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, 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 61 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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