How much revenue did The Backrooms: Found Footage make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Backrooms: Found Footage sell?

Q: How many copies did The Backrooms: Found Footage sell?

2k copies, based on its 61 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut; from 61 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 The Backrooms: Found Footage and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Backrooms: Found Footage's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 399–151k

best case 640k (Minecraft Dungeons)

Games like The Backrooms: Found Footage

A typical game among these

≈ 399–151k copies

≈ $1k–$541k after Steam's cut

from ~535 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Minecraft Dungeons at ≈ 487k–792k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 297 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and Exploration (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Hack and Slash, priced around $20.
When they shipped: Only 3 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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