How many copies did Welcome To The Backrooms sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 151 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Welcome To The Backrooms make?

Welcome To The Backrooms is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Welcome To The Backrooms?

Estimated owners: ≈ 4k–6k; from 151 reviews (Mixed)

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 Welcome To The Backrooms out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Welcome To The Backrooms's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–106k

best case 650k (Ghostwire: Tokyo)

The Horror genre

5 of your 8 similar games are hits. A niche genre: plan for a small audience.

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

A typical game

≈ 15k–106k copies

≈ $59k–$773k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Best case

≈ 495k–804k copies

Ghostwire: Tokyo · ≈ $8.2M–$22.0M after Steam's cut

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Supernatural + Open World, priced around $60.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count.

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