How much revenue did Stirring Abyss make?

$76k–$204k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stirring Abyss sell?

Q: How many copies did Stirring Abyss sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 445 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $76k–$204k after Steam's cut $138k–$314k before Steam's cut; from 445 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 Stirring Abyss and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stirring Abyss's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 55k–112k

best case 229k (We Need To Go Deeper)

Games like Stirring Abyss

A typical game among these

≈ 55k–112k copies

≈ $144k–$898k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: We Need To Go Deeper at ≈ 174k–283k copies, ≈ $766k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 333 reviews in their first month; the range was 239 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Underwater (5 of 8) and Lovecraftian (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Lovecraftian, priced around $16.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 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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