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How many copies did Single Player: Horror sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 620–1k
$169–$454 after Steam's cut $307–$699 before Steam's cut
from 25 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 Single Player: Horror and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Single Player: Horror's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.1M–9.4M
best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)
Games like Single Player: Horror

A typical game among these

≈ 5.1M–9.4M copies

≈ $38.6M–$69.9M after Steam's cut

from ~149k 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 40k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 114k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share First-Person (8 of 8) and Horror (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Psychological Horror + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2013 to 2025, and 1 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 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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