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How big is missed messages.?

Estimated owners
≈ 447k–727k
from 16k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 missed messages. out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including missed messages.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 218k–462k
best case 2.4M (UNO)
Games like missed messages.

The middle of these games

≈ 218k–462k copies

from ~10k 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: UNO at ≈ 1.9M–3.0M copies, ≈ $5.1M–$13.8M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 922 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Dating Sim (5 of 8) and LGBTQ+ (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Card Game + Tabletop, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Card Game + Funny + Strategy; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2023, 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 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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