How much revenue did Layers of Fear make?

$358k–$962k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Layers of Fear sell?

Q: How many copies did Layers of Fear sell?

43k to 70k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–70k; $358k–$962k after Steam's cut $650k–$1.5M before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Layers of Fear and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Layers of Fear's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.3M–10.6M

best case 51.1M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like Layers of Fear

A typical game among these

≈ 5.3M–10.6M copies

≈ $41.8M–$72.5M after Steam's cut

from ~164k 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: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 39.0M–63.3M copies, ≈ $214.2M–$575.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 41k reviews in their first month; the range was 35k to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and First-Person (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Co-op, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut $66.3M–$150.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	140k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorFirst-Person
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