How much revenue did Paradise Killer make?

$619k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Paradise Killer sell?

Q: How many copies did Paradise Killer sell?

113k to 183k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 113k–183k; $619k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Paradise Killer and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paradise Killer's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 198k–301k

best case 349k (No Case Should Remain Unsolved)

Games like Paradise Killer

A typical game among these

≈ 198k–301k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: No Case Should Remain Unsolved at ≈ 266k–433k copies, ≈ $512k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 366 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Female Protagonist (6 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Puzzle, priced around $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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