How much revenue did Afterlife VR make?

$20k–$54k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Afterlife VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Afterlife VR sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 196 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $20k–$54k after Steam's cut $36k–$83k before Steam's cut; from 196 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 Afterlife VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Afterlife VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 264k–508k

best case 9.1M (Resident Evil 4)

Games like Afterlife VR

A typical game among these

≈ 264k–508k copies

≈ $2.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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 4 at ≈ 7.0M–11.3M copies, ≈ $76.4M–$205.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the range was 619 to 68k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Zombies (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M 14x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.1M–$64.9M after Steam's cut $43.9M–$99.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	128k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Resident Evil 7 Teaser: Beginning Hour 2016	Est. copies ≈ 201k–327k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Arizona Sunshine® VR Legacy 2016	Est. copies ≈ 387k–629k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.6M–$4.3M after Steam's cut $2.9M–$6.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	9k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionVR
Half-Life: Alyx 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $43.2M–$116.1M after Steam's cut $78.5M–$178.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	106k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	VRFPS
Propagation VR 2020	Est. copies ≈ 146k–238k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	6k reviews Very Positive	VRAction
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
Resident Evil 4 2023	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.3M 30x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $76.4M–$205.5M after Steam's cut $139.0M–$316.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	280k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorAction
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners 2020	Est. copies ≈ 251k–407k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	VRZombies