How much revenue did The Mortuary Assistant make?

$1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Mortuary Assistant sell?

Q: How many copies did The Mortuary Assistant sell?

219k to 356k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 219k–356k; $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.2M before Steam's cut; from 9k 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 The Mortuary Assistant and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including The Mortuary Assistant's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 298k–3.2M

best case 11.6M (Outlast)

Games like The Mortuary Assistant

A typical game among these

≈ 298k–3.2M copies

≈ $3.2M–$36.0M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: Outlast at ≈ 8.8M–14.4M copies, ≈ $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 780 reviews in their first month; the range was 534 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (3 of 4) and Horror (3 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, and none of them 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
MADiSON 2022	Est. copies ≈ 86k–140k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $832k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut	$34.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Fears to Fathom - Home Alone 2021	Est. copies ≈ 279k–454k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Very Positive	AdventureCasual
Visage 2020	Est. copies ≈ 274k–445k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.1M after Steam's cut $4.8M–$10.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	11k reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.4M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut $66.3M–$150.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	140k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorFirst-Person