How much revenue did Christmas Massacre make?

$61k–$163k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Christmas Massacre sell?

Q: How many copies did Christmas Massacre sell?

28k to 45k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–45k; $61k–$163k after Steam's cut $110k–$251k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Christmas Massacre and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Christmas Massacre's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–97k

best case 242k (Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle)

Games like Christmas Massacre

A typical game among these

≈ 27k–97k copies

≈ $111k–$1.0M 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle at ≈ 185k–300k copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 347 reviews in their first month; the range was 116 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Gore (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Horror.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 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 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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