How much revenue did THE LONGING make?

$760k–$2.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did THE LONGING sell?

Q: How many copies did THE LONGING sell?

184k to 300k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 184k–300k; $760k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.1M before the cut; from 7k 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 THE LONGING out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including THE LONGING's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 502k–666k

best case 1.6M (Life is Strange 2)

Games like THE LONGING

The middle of these games

≈ 502k–666k copies

≈ $2.4M–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Life is Strange 2 at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 723 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choices Matter (6 of 8) and Story Rich (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Atmospheric; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 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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