How much revenue did Backrooms: Escape Together make?

$3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Backrooms: Escape Together sell?

Q: How many copies did Backrooms: Escape Together sell?

1.2M to 2.0M copies, based on its 50k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–2.0M; $3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.0M before Steam's cut; from 50k 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 Backrooms: Escape Together and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Backrooms: Escape Together's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26.6M–52.6M

best case 99.7M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Backrooms: Escape Together

A typical game among these

≈ 26.6M–52.6M copies

≈ $121.7M–$379.0M after Steam's cut

from ~889k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (2 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 76.0M–123.4M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (2 of 8) and First-Person (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2020, 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 70 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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