How much revenue did Five Nights: No Escape make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Five Nights: No Escape sell?

Q: How many copies did Five Nights: No Escape sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 45 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before Steam's cut; from 45 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 Five Nights: No Escape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Five Nights: No Escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.8M

best case 8.5M (Resident Evil 2)

Games like Five Nights: No Escape

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–2.8M copies

≈ $14.3M–$22.6M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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: Resident Evil 2 at ≈ 6.5M–10.5M copies, ≈ $70.9M–$190.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Survival Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Zombies + Singleplayer + Gore; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Resident Evil 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.5M 6.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $70.9M–$190.7M after Steam's cut $129.0M–$293.4M before Steam's cut	$39.99	224k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesSurvival Horror
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.1M–$64.9M after Steam's cut $43.9M–$99.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	128k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Survival Horror
SOMA 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.4M–$57.4M after Steam's cut $38.8M–$88.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Inside the Backrooms 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.2M before Steam's cut	$6.99	47k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
The Evil Within 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.7M–$31.6M after Steam's cut $21.4M–$48.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	31k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Resident Evil 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.9M–$26.5M after Steam's cut $17.9M–$40.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	37k reviews Very Positive	Survival HorrorZombies
Amnesia: The Dark Descent 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.4M–$33.4M after Steam's cut $22.6M–$51.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	36k reviews Very Positive	HorrorGore
Bendy and the Ink Machine 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.0M–$18.9M after Steam's cut $12.8M–$29.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	37k reviews Very Positive	HorrorFirst-Person