How much revenue did Home Safety Hotline make?

$302k–$813k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Home Safety Hotline sell?

Q: How many copies did Home Safety Hotline sell?

73k to 119k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 73k–119k; $302k–$813k after Steam's cut $550k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Home Safety Hotline and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Home Safety Hotline's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.5M

best case 1.5M (The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series)

Games like Home Safety Hotline

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–1.5M copies

≈ $1.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut

from ~34k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $16.2M–$43.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 332 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 28k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and Psychological Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choices Matter + Story Rich, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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