How much revenue did The Classrooms make?

$289k–$776k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Classrooms sell?

Q: How many copies did The Classrooms sell?

81k to 131k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 81k–131k; $289k–$776k after Steam's cut $525k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Classrooms and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Classrooms's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 576k–8.2M

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like The Classrooms

A typical game among these

≈ 576k–8.2M copies

≈ $1.5M–$28.4M after Steam's cut

from ~46k 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: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 418 to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and Psychological Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $10.
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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