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How many copies did 沉睡的法则 Things as They Are sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 34k–55k
$56k–$150k after Steam's cut $101k–$230k before the cut
from 1k 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 沉睡的法则 Things as They Are out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including 沉睡的法则 Things as They Are's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.1M–13.5M
best case 27.2M (The Forest)
Games like 沉睡的法则 Things as They Are

The middle of these games

≈ 4.1M–13.5M copies

≈ $83.9M–$182.8M after Steam's cut

from ~207k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 19k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11k to 92k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on JRPG (3 of 4) and Story Rich (3 of 4).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 1 of your 4 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 38 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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