How much revenue did Pillars of Sorrow make?

$205–$549 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pillars of Sorrow sell?

Q: How many copies did Pillars of Sorrow sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $205–$549 after Steam's cut $372–$845 before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Pillars of Sorrow and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pillars of Sorrow's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–3.4M

best case 7.3M (Cry of Fear)

Games like Pillars of Sorrow

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–3.4M copies

≈ $6.6M–$23.3M after Steam's cut

from ~56k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cry of Fear at ≈ 5.5M–9.0M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 163 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Psychological (6 of 8) and Psychological Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror.
When they shipped: The similar games span 1997 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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NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut $11.6M–$26.3M before Steam's cut	$15.99	58k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorAnime
SILENT HILL 2 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.7M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $31.4M–$84.4M after Steam's cut $57.1M–$129.8M before Steam's cut	$69.99	66k reviews Very Positive	Psychological Horror Horror
Cry of Fear 2013	Est. copies ≈ 5.5M–9.0M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	88k reviews Very Positive	HorrorFree to Play
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POSTAL 1997	Est. copies ≈ 916k–1.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	14k reviews Very Positive	HorrorVillain Protagonist
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