How much revenue did Venture to the Vile make?

$32k–$85k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Venture to the Vile sell?

Q: How many copies did Venture to the Vile sell?

5k to 7k copies, based on its 185 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–7k; $32k–$85k after Steam's cut $57k–$130k before Steam's cut; from 185 reviews (Mostly 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 Venture to the Vile and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Venture to the Vile's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 106k–2.5M

best case 6.6M (STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™)

Games like Venture to the Vile

A typical game among these

≈ 106k–2.5M copies

≈ $821k–$27.7M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ at ≈ 5.1M–8.2M copies, ≈ $55.6M–$149.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 741 reviews in their first month; the range was 474 to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (7 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + Souls-like, priced around $40.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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