How much revenue did The Monstrous Horror Show make?

$32k–$87k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Monstrous Horror Show sell?

Q: How many copies did The Monstrous Horror Show sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 316 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $32k–$87k after Steam's cut $59k–$134k before Steam's cut; from 316 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 Monstrous Horror Show and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Monstrous Horror Show's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 501k–636k

best case 3.9M (Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition)

Games like The Monstrous Horror Show

A typical game among these

≈ 501k–636k copies

≈ $2.2M–$3.7M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition at ≈ 3.0M–4.8M copies, ≈ $16.4M–$44.1M 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 Puzzle (6 of 8) and Platformer (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Story Rich + Atmospheric + Historical; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2019, 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 36 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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Seen 2019	Est. copies ≈ 288k–467k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $78k–$210k after Steam's cut $142k–$324k before Steam's cut	$0.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessIndie
Hue 2016	Est. copies ≈ 474k–770k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	11k reviews Very Positive	IndiePuzzle
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) 2014	Est. copies ≈ 486k–790k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.4M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	9k reviews Very Positive	IndieLocal Co-Op
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Braid 2009	Est. copies ≈ 629k–1.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	10k reviews Very Positive	Puzzle-PlatformerPuzzle
The Swapper 2013	Est. copies ≈ 480k–780k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.2M before Steam's cut	$14.99	8k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleSci-fi
Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $6.4M–$17.1M after Steam's cut $11.6M–$26.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	28k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AtmosphericHistorical
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M 7.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $16.4M–$44.1M after Steam's cut $29.8M–$67.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	72k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AtmosphericGreat Soundtrack