How much revenue did Anew: The Distant Light make?

Anew: The Distant Light is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Anew: The Distant Light sell?

Q: How many copies did Anew: The Distant Light sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; from 18 reviews (Mixed)

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 Anew: The Distant Light out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Anew: The Distant Light's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–6k

best case 219k (GRIME)

Games like Anew: The Distant Light

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–6k copies

≈ $2k–$15k after Steam's cut

from ~41 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: GRIME at ≈ 167k–272k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$3.1M 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 82 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Platformer (6 of 8) and Souls-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Metroidvania + Souls-like, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Metroidvania + Action-Adventure + Exploration; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 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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