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 players who have it: ≈ 4k–6k; from 151 reviews (Mixed)

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 Welcome To The Backrooms and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Welcome To The Backrooms's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–111k

best case 691k (Ghostwire: Tokyo)

Games like Welcome To The Backrooms

A typical game among these

≈ 15k–111k copies

≈ $60k–$807k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ghostwire: Tokyo at ≈ 526k–855k copies, ≈ $8.7M–$23.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 378 reviews in their first month; the range was 38 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Supernatural + Open World, priced around $60.
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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