How much revenue did Containment Search make?

$20–$55 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Containment Search sell?

Q: How many copies did Containment Search sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $20–$55 after Steam's cut $37–$84 before Steam's cut; from 1 review (1 user reviews); Only 1 review 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 Containment Search and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Containment Search's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–5.1M

best case 11.6M (Outlast)

Games like Containment Search

A typical game among these

≈ 2.9M–5.1M copies

≈ $11.3M–$57.2M after Steam's cut

from ~85k 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: Outlast at ≈ 8.8M–14.4M copies, ≈ $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 24k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 45k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.4M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut $66.3M–$150.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	140k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorFirst-Person
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