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How many copies did Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 213k–346k
$292k–$786k after Steam's cut $532k–$1.2M before Steam's cut
from 3k 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 Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 623k–2.2M
best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)
Games like Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth

A typical game among these

≈ 623k–2.2M copies

≈ $4.2M–$17.3M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 40k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and Psychological Horror (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry VR + Supernatural + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2010 to 2023, 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 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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2.2x vs typical
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Est. copies
≈ 2.3M–3.7M
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2020
Est. copies
≈ 20.9M–33.9M
35x vs typical
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$39.99
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Mostly Positive
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