How much revenue did The Door in the Basement make?

$14k–$38k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Door in the Basement sell?

Q: How many copies did The Door in the Basement sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 191 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $26k–$59k before Steam's cut; from 191 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 Door in the Basement and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Door in the Basement's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–3.0M

best case 3.4M (SOMA)

Games like The Door in the Basement

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–3.0M copies

≈ $4.1M–$22.9M after Steam's cut

from ~43k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SOMA at ≈ 2.6M–4.2M copies, ≈ $21.4M–$57.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 392 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and Psychological Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, and 1 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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SOMA 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.4M–$57.4M after Steam's cut $38.8M–$88.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
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