How much revenue did Superliminal make?

$4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Superliminal sell?

Q: How many copies did Superliminal sell?

848k to 1.4M copies, based on its 34k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 848k–1.4M; $4.7M–$12.5M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.3M before Steam's cut; from 34k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Superliminal and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Superliminal's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.6M

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Superliminal

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–2.6M copies

≈ $11.5M–$20.9M after Steam's cut

from ~31k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.3M–$54.6M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (7 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Dark, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Dark + Card Battler + Card Game; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, and 1 of the 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 79 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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