How much revenue did Pyramid Curse make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pyramid Curse sell?

Q: How many copies did Pyramid Curse sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 84 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$9k before Steam's cut; from 84 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 Pyramid Curse and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pyramid Curse's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.9M–10.0M

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Pyramid Curse

A typical game among these

≈ 5.9M–10.0M copies

≈ $67.2M–$130.8M after Steam's cut

from ~189k 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 40k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 68k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and Survival Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Multiplayer + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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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Phasmophobia 2020	Est. copies ≈ 20.9M–33.9M 4.4x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut $208.6M–$474.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	842k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
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