How much revenue did Escape: Malice make?

$54k–$147k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape: Malice sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape: Malice sell?

25k to 40k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–40k; $54k–$147k after Steam's cut $99k–$225k before the cut; from 1k reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Escape: Malice out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape: Malice's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 497k–745k

best case 2.3M (The Room)

Games like Escape: Malice

The middle of these games

≈ 497k–745k copies

≈ $1.2M–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: The Room at ≈ 1.8M–2.9M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 75 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Point & Click (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Mystery, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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 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 Room Two 2016	Est. copies ≈ 907k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.3M after Steam's cut $2.3M–$5.1M before the cut	$4.99	22k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleMystery
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Cube Escape: Paradox 2018	Est. copies ≈ 372k–604k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleFree to Play
The Room Three 2018	Est. copies ≈ 408k–663k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $673k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before the cut	$5.99	13k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleMystery
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