How much revenue did DEVOUR make?

$6.0M–$16.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DEVOUR sell?

Q: How many copies did DEVOUR sell?

2.2M to 3.6M copies, based on its 88k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.2M–3.6M; $6.0M–$16.2M after Steam's cut $11.0M–$24.9M before Steam's cut; from 88k 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 DEVOUR and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including DEVOUR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 346k–7.3M

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like DEVOUR

A typical game among these

≈ 346k–7.3M copies

≈ $1.4M–$54.6M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 4) and Horror (4 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 4 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Phasmophobia 2020	Est. copies ≈ 20.9M–33.9M 57x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut $208.6M–$474.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	842k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
FOREWARNED 2024	Est. copies ≈ 166k–269k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $592k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M before Steam's cut	$12.99	7k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Labyrinthine 2023	Est. copies ≈ 434k–706k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$4.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	18k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
In Silence 2021	Est. copies ≈ 296k–482k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $815k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	12k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer