How much revenue did Possession 1881 make?

$612–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Possession 1881 sell?

Q: How many copies did Possession 1881 sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $612–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 18 reviews (Mostly 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 Possession 1881 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Possession 1881's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 152k–489k

best case 437k (The Talos Principle 2)

Games like Possession 1881

A typical game among these

≈ 152k–489k copies

≈ $390k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: The Talos Principle 2 at ≈ 333k–541k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 771 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Story Rich, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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 70 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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