How much revenue did Light the Backrooms make?

$102–$275 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Light the Backrooms sell?

Q: How many copies did Light the Backrooms sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $102–$275 after Steam's cut $185–$423 before Steam's cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Only 3 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Light the Backrooms and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Light the Backrooms's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–4.4M

best case 7.3M (Cry of Fear)

Games like Light the Backrooms

A typical game among these

≈ 2.9M–4.4M copies

≈ $10.7M–$21.9M after Steam's cut

from ~83k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cry of Fear at ≈ 5.5M–9.0M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16 reviews in their first month; the range was 5 to 22k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Psychological Horror (8 of 8) and Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, and 3 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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Gorilla Tag 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.7M–$31.6M after Steam's cut $21.4M–$48.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	86k reviews Very Positive	VRPsychological Horror
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