How much revenue did Escape the Backrooms make?

$11.2M–$30.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape the Backrooms sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape the Backrooms sell?

4.1M to 6.7M copies, based on its 165k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.1M–6.7M; $11.2M–$30.2M after Steam's cut $20.4M–$46.5M before the cut; from 165k reviews (Very Positive)

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

Does this actually work?

We left Escape the Backrooms out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape the Backrooms's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 45.1M–105.4M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Escape the Backrooms

The middle of these games

≈ 45.1M–105.4M copies

≈ $256.6M–$348.1M after Steam's cut

from ~1.2M reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Co-op (2 of 4), 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (2 of 4) and FPS (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Dead by Daylight 2016	Est. copies ≈ 38.8M–63.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $213.5M–$574.0M after Steam's cut $388.2M–$883.1M before the cut	$19.99	934k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 75.6M–122.8M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.5M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
Phasmophobia 2020	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.8M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.4M–$307.5M after Steam's cut $207.9M–$473.1M before the cut	$19.99	839k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op