How much revenue did The Utility Room make?

$26k–$69k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Utility Room sell?

Q: How many copies did The Utility Room sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 290 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $26k–$69k after Steam's cut $47k–$106k before Steam's cut; from 290 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 Utility Room and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Utility Room's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.8M–19.8M

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like The Utility Room

A typical game among these

≈ 7.8M–19.8M copies

≈ $112.6M–$178.6M after Steam's cut

from ~269k 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 34 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 40k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (8 of 8) and Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 3 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 52 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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VRChat 2017	Est. copies ≈ 9.3M–15.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	269k reviews Mostly Positive	VRFree to Play
Phasmophobia 2020	Est. copies ≈ 20.9M–33.9M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut $208.6M–$474.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	842k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Half-Life: Alyx 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $43.2M–$116.1M after Steam's cut $78.5M–$178.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	106k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	VRFPS
Sense of Darkness 2024	Est. copies ≈ 174–282 too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $239–$640 after Steam's cut $434–$985 before Steam's cut	$4.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	VRImmersive Sim
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A Wake Inn 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before Steam's cut	$19.99	44 reviews Mixed	VRHorror
The Inner Descent VR 2024	Est. copies ≈ 50–81 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $96–$257 after Steam's cut $175–$396 before Steam's cut	$6.99	2 reviews 2 user reviews	Immersive SimVR
Clamb 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut	$5.99	160 reviews Mixed	VRPsychological Horror