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How many copies did Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I. sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 24k–40k
$67k–$181k after Steam's cut $122k–$278k before the cut
from 986 reviews (Very Positive)

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

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We left Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I. out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 20.5M–42.1M
best case 37.8M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)
Games like Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I.

The middle of these games

≈ 20.5M–42.1M copies

≈ $74.6M–$256.6M after Steam's cut

from ~738k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.8M–46.8M copies, ≈ $316.7M–$851.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 40k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 35k to 251k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Co-op (4 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Shooter, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 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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