How much revenue did Mental Hospital - Child of Evil make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mental Hospital - Child of Evil sell?

Q: How many copies did Mental Hospital - Child of Evil sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 66 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 66 reviews (Mixed)

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 Mental Hospital - Child of Evil and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mental Hospital - Child of Evil's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 288k–584k

best case 676k (Indiana Jones and the Great Circle)

Games like Mental Hospital - Child of Evil

A typical game among these

≈ 288k–584k copies

≈ $1.9M–$6.2M 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.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle at ≈ 515k–837k copies, ≈ $9.9M–$26.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 16 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action-Adventure (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + First-Person, priced around $70.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2024, and 2 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 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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