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How many copies did Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k
$5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before Steam's cut
from 61 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 Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–607k
best case 1.5M (We Were Here)
Games like Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's

A typical game among these

≈ 39k–607k copies

≈ $624k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: We Were Here at ≈ 1.1M–1.9M copies.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 329 reviews in their first month; the range was 161 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Mystery (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Co-op + Escape Room.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2017 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 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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