How much revenue did Moons of Madness make?

$580k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Moons of Madness sell?

Q: How many copies did Moons of Madness sell?

84k to 137k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 84k–137k; $580k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly 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 Moons of Madness out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Moons of Madness's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163k–773k

best case 3.4M (SOMA)

Games like Moons of Madness

The middle of these games

≈ 163k–773k copies

≈ $1.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: SOMA at ≈ 2.6M–4.2M copies, ≈ $21.2M–$57.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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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