How much revenue did Aya's Journey make?

$962–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Aya's Journey sell?

Q: How many copies did Aya's Journey sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 34 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $962–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 34 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 157k–265k

best case 5.8M (Celeste)

Games like Aya's Journey

The middle of these games

≈ 157k–265k copies

≈ $672k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Celeste at ≈ 4.4M–7.2M copies, ≈ $24.5M–$65.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (5 of 8) and Precision Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Platformer, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Female Protagonist + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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