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How big is A Raven Monologue?

Estimated owners
≈ 83k–135k
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 A Raven Monologue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Raven Monologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–58k
best case 934k (Gorogoa)
Games like A Raven Monologue

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–58k copies

≈ $15k–$108k after Steam's cut

from ~450 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Gorogoa at ≈ 712k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 24 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 69.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Short (5 of 8) and Hand-drawn (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Hand-drawn, priced around $15.
The era
None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. 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 31 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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Gorogoa
2017
Est. copies
≈ 712k–1.2M
46x vs typical
SteamSpy 200k–500k
Est. revenue
$2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before the cut
$14.99
21k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
PuzzleHand-drawn
The Good Time Garden
2019
Est. copies
≈ 84k–136k
6.5x vs typical
SteamSpy 100k–200k
Est. revenue
Free
Free
3k reviews
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Free to PlayIndie
The Franz Kafka Videogame
2017
Est. copies
≈ 31k–50k
2.0x vs typical
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Est. revenue
$59k–$158k after Steam's cut $107k–$243k before the cut
$6.99
888 reviews
Mixed
AdventureSurreal
All You Can Eat
2017
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≈ 15k–24k
SteamSpy under 20k
Est. revenue
$8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$34k before the cut
$1.99
435 reviews
Very Positive
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$3.99
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Est. copies
≈ 12k–19k
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