How much revenue did The Heilwald Loophole make?

$25k–$68k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Heilwald Loophole sell?

Q: How many copies did The Heilwald Loophole sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 369 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $25k–$68k after Steam's cut $46k–$104k before the cut; from 369 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Heilwald Loophole out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Heilwald Loophole's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–7.9M

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like The Heilwald Loophole

The middle of these games

≈ 2.4M–7.9M copies

≈ $10.0M–$44.8M after Steam's cut

from ~59k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.4M–$307.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (8 of 8) and Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2020, 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).

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