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How many copies did Tormented Souls sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 204k–331k
$1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before Steam's cut
from 8k 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 Tormented Souls and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tormented Souls's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.3M–5.1M
best case 8.5M (Resident Evil 2)
Games like Tormented Souls

A typical game among these

≈ 4.3M–5.1M copies

≈ $11.1M–$40.7M after Steam's cut

from ~111k 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 2 at ≈ 6.5M–10.5M copies, ≈ $70.9M–$190.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and Dark (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Remake + Third Person + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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