How much revenue did Emily is Away <3 make?

$461k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Emily is Away <3 sell?

Q: How many copies did Emily is Away <3 sell?

168k to 273k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Q: How much revenue did Emily is Away <3 make?

$461k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 168k–273k; $461k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $838k–$1.9M 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 Emily is Away <3 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Emily is Away <3's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.0M

best case 4.7M (Crusader Kings III)

Games like Emily is Away <3

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–2.0M copies

≈ $5.8M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~41k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Choices Matter (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: Crusader Kings III at ≈ 3.5M–5.8M copies, ≈ $48.8M–$131.2M 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 22k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Choices Matter (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Simulation + VR + Software; 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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