How much revenue did The Forgotten City make?

$2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Forgotten City sell?

Q: How many copies did The Forgotten City sell?

337k to 548k copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 337k–548k; $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.6M before the cut; from 14k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 The Forgotten City out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Forgotten City's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–57k

best case 334k (Enigma of Fear)

Games like The Forgotten City

The middle of these games

≈ 26k–57k copies

≈ $88k–$252k after Steam's cut

from ~952 reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Enigma of Fear at ≈ 254k–413k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.6M 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 386 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 103 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mystery (6 of 8) and Point & Click (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mystery + Puzzle, priced around $27. The breakout hits carry Supernatural + Detective + Survival Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, and 2 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 61 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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