How much revenue did Healing Animal make?

$614–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Healing Animal sell?

Q: How many copies did Healing Animal sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $614–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Healing Animal and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Healing Animal's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 718k–1.3M

best case 4.4M (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Games like Healing Animal

A typical game among these

≈ 718k–1.3M copies

≈ $6.0M–$7.8M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Five Nights at Freddy's at ≈ 3.3M–5.4M copies, ≈ $4.6M–$12.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (4 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2018, 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 38 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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Deadlight 2012	Est. copies ≈ 808k–1.3M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$9.0M after Steam's cut $6.1M–$13.8M before Steam's cut	$14.99	13k reviews Mostly Positive	ZombiesPlatformer
Homefront 2011	Est. copies ≈ 850k–1.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.3M before Steam's cut	$19.99	13k reviews Mixed	ActionFPS
FAR: Lone Sails 2018	Est. copies ≈ 806k–1.3M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	27k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AtmosphericAdventure
The Plan 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	24k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayIndie
Five Nights at Freddy's 2014	Est. copies ≈ 3.3M–5.4M 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.6M–$12.3M after Steam's cut $8.3M–$18.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	59k reviews Very Positive	HorrorSingleplayer
Shelter 2 2015	Est. copies ≈ 211k–343k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.9M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$6.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	4k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAtmospheric
Slender: The Arrival 2013	Est. copies ≈ 592k–962k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.7M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	9k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
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