How much revenue did Midnight Scenes: From the Woods make?

$8k–$23k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Midnight Scenes: From the Woods sell?

Q: How many copies did Midnight Scenes: From the Woods sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 205 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $8k–$23k after Steam's cut $15k–$35k before Steam's cut; from 205 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 Midnight Scenes: From the Woods and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Midnight Scenes: From the Woods's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–1.9M

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Midnight Scenes: From the Woods

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–1.9M copies

≈ $4.4M–$13.0M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry VR + Online Co-Op + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2022, 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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