How much revenue did Boo Men make?

$145k–$389k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Boo Men sell?

Q: How many copies did Boo Men sell?

66k to 107k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 66k–107k; $145k–$389k after Steam's cut $263k–$598k before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Boo Men and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Boo Men's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–1.5M

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Boo Men

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–1.5M copies

≈ $4k–$15.7M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 235 reviews in their first month; the range was 12 to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Heist (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 70 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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The Memory Thieves 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$6.99	50 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessHeist
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GraveyardGambit 2024	Est. copies ≈ 496–806 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $681–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$4.99	20 reviews Positive	Action RTSHeist