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How many copies did Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 12k–20k
$68k–$183k after Steam's cut $124k–$282k before the cut
from 430 reviews (Very 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 Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19k–46k
best case 142k (Kandidatos)
Games like Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love

The middle of these games

≈ 19k–46k copies

≈ $34k–$98k after Steam's cut

from ~792 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Satire (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Kandidatos at ≈ 108k–176k copies, ≈ $29k–$79k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 122 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 24 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Satire (4 of 8) and Dark Comedy (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Fighting + Political, priced around $1.
The era
The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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