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How many copies did Azrael sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 248–403
$136–$365 after Steam's cut $247–$561 before Steam's cut
from 10 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 215k–440k
best case 1.3M (Unheard - Voices of Crime)
Games like Azrael

A typical game among these

≈ 215k–440k copies

≈ $237k–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~7k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Unheard - Voices of Crime at ≈ 981k–1.6M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 603 reviews in their first month; the range was 75 to 15k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $7.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 1 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 52 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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