How much revenue did Escape Purgatory make?

$681–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape Purgatory sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape Purgatory sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; $681–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 10 reviews (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 Escape Purgatory and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape Purgatory's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–2.4M

best case 16.5M (Portal)

Games like Escape Purgatory

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–2.4M copies

≈ $11.4M–$28.2M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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: Portal at ≈ 12.6M–20.5M copies, ≈ $34.6M–$93.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 10 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 724.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Puzzle-Platformer, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2007 to 2023, 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 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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