How much revenue did Fade Out make?

Fade Out is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Fade Out sell?

Q: How many copies did Fade Out sell?

288 to 468 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 288–468; from 10 reviews (Mostly 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 Fade Out and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fade Out's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 98–2k

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Fade Out

A typical game among these

≈ 98–2k copies

≈ $235–$12k after Steam's cut

from ~17 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 40k reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and VR (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Co-op + Supernatural; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Phasmophobia 2020	Est. copies ≈ 20.9M–33.9M 49514x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut $208.6M–$474.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	842k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
The Corridor: On Behalf Of The Dead 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	36 reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorInvestigation
The Room VR: A Dark Matter 2020	Est. copies ≈ 100k–162k 237x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $686k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before Steam's cut	$24.99	4k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AdventurePuzzle
Nightmare Rooms VR 2022	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $103–$273 after Steam's cut $187–$420 before Steam's cut	$14.99	1 reviews 1 user reviews	AdventurePsychological Horror
Lockdown VR: Kidnapped 2020	Est. copies ≈ 422–685 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $347–$932 after Steam's cut $631–$1k before Steam's cut	$2.99	17 reviews Mostly Positive	Escape RoomVR
Lockdown VR: Circus of the Dead 2022	Est. copies ≈ 124–202 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $204–$551 after Steam's cut $371–$847 before Steam's cut	$5.99	5 reviews 5 user reviews	Escape RoomVR
Lockdown VR: Forgotten Temple 2023	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $41–$109 after Steam's cut $75–$168 before Steam's cut	$5.99	1 reviews 1 user reviews	AdventureCasual
Rooms of Realities 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$35k before Steam's cut	$17.99	68 reviews Very Positive	VRPuzzle