How much revenue did My Time at Portia make?

$10.5M–$28.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did My Time at Portia sell?

Q: How many copies did My Time at Portia sell?

1.3M to 2.1M copies, based on its 44k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.3M–2.1M; $10.5M–$28.3M after Steam's cut $19.1M–$43.5M before the cut; from 44k 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 My Time at Portia out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including My Time at Portia's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.6M

best case 56.5M (Stardew Valley)

Games like My Time at Portia

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–1.6M copies

≈ $6.8M–$14.6M after Steam's cut

from ~34k 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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.0M–69.9M copies, ≈ $177.4M–$476.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12k to 64k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Life Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 1 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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