How much revenue did Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs make?

$4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs sell?

Q: How many copies did Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs sell?

770k to 1.3M copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 770k–1.3M; $4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.5M before Steam's cut; from 12k 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 Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–7.1M

best case 12.1M (DOOM)

Games like Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

A typical game among these

≈ 3.9M–7.1M copies

≈ $40.2M–$55.2M after Steam's cut

from ~100k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: DOOM at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $50.7M–$136.4M 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 First-Person (4 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Gore, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry FPS + Shooter + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2017. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 43 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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