How much revenue did Samurai Slaughter House make?

$12k–$32k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Samurai Slaughter House sell?

Q: How many copies did Samurai Slaughter House sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 58 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $12k–$32k after Steam's cut $22k–$49k before Steam's cut; from 58 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–98k

best case 149k (Hellsplit: Arena)

Games like Samurai Slaughter House

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–98k copies

≈ $48k–$925k after Steam's cut

from ~927 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hellsplit: Arena at ≈ 114k–185k copies, ≈ $783k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 88 reviews in their first month; the range was 48 to 2k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (8 of 8) and Swordplay (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Gore, priced around $25.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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