How much revenue did Descending I - House of Nightmares make?

$3k–$9k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Descending I - House of Nightmares sell?

Q: How many copies did Descending I - House of Nightmares sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 50 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut; from 50 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 Descending I - House of Nightmares and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Descending I - House of Nightmares's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M

best case 5.8M (Resident Evil 7 Biohazard)

Games like Descending I - House of Nightmares

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M copies

≈ $3.6M–$10.0M after Steam's cut

from ~40k 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 7 Biohazard at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies, ≈ $24.1M–$64.9M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 392 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Co-op (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Survival Horror + Sexual Content + Dark; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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 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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