How much revenue did Murder House make?

$192k–$516k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Murder House sell?

Q: How many copies did Murder House sell?

58k to 95k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 58k–95k; $192k–$516k after Steam's cut $349k–$793k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Murder House and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Murder House's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 177k–244k

best case 2.5M (Duck Game)

Games like Murder House

A typical game among these

≈ 177k–244k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Horror (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

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: Duck Game at ≈ 1.9M–3.1M copies, ≈ $6.8M–$18.3M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 637 reviews in their first month; the range was 459 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (4 of 8) and Point & Click (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with 4 Player Local + Platformer, priced around $13. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Local Multiplayer + 4 Player Local; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games 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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