How much revenue did Enter The Backrooms make?

$72k–$195k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Enter The Backrooms sell?

Q: How many copies did Enter The Backrooms sell?

26k to 43k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–43k; $72k–$195k after Steam's cut $132k–$300k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Enter The Backrooms and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Enter The Backrooms's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 88k–3.0M

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like Enter The Backrooms

A typical game among these

≈ 88k–3.0M copies

≈ $361k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.6M 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 18 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Procedural Generation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 3 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 43 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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