How much revenue did The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game make?

$57k–$154k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game sell?

Q: How many copies did The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game sell?

21k to 34k copies, based on its 838 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–34k; $57k–$154k after Steam's cut $104k–$236k before Steam's cut; from 838 reviews (Very 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 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.3M–9.7M

best case 51.1M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game

A typical game among these

≈ 4.3M–9.7M copies

≈ $44.5M–$77.9M after Steam's cut

from ~140k 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.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Survival Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Team-Based + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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Dead by Daylight 2016	Est. copies ≈ 39.0M–63.3M 6.7x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $214.2M–$575.9M after Steam's cut $389.4M–$886.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	937k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Resident Evil Village 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	155k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Survival Horror Horror
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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Resident Evil 4 2023	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.3M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $76.4M–$205.5M after Steam's cut $139.0M–$316.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	280k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorAction
Friday the 13th: The Game 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	77k reviews Very Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.1M–$64.9M after Steam's cut $43.9M–$99.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	128k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Outlast 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.2M–$32.9M after Steam's cut $22.2M–$50.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	65k reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror