How much revenue did The Room VR: A Dark Matter make?

$686k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Room VR: A Dark Matter sell?

Q: How many copies did The Room VR: A Dark Matter sell?

100k to 162k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 100k–162k; $686k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 The Room VR: A Dark Matter and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Room VR: A Dark Matter's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 78k–134k

best case 632k (Escape Simulator)

Games like The Room VR: A Dark Matter

A typical game among these

≈ 78k–134k copies

≈ $411k–$1.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: Escape Simulator at ≈ 482k–783k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.1M 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 724 reviews in their first month; the range was 319 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and First-Person (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Escape Room, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Escape Room + Mystery + Point & Click; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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