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How many copies did Rest In Pieces sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before Steam's cut
from 51 reviews (Mixed)

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 Rest In Pieces and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rest In Pieces's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–5.2M
best case 9.1M (Resident Evil 4)
Games like Rest In Pieces

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–5.2M copies

≈ $15.2M–$52.9M after Steam's cut

from ~66k 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: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 7.0M–11.3M copies, ≈ $76.4M–$205.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 40k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 68k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share VR (5 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $40.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 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 43 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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