How much revenue did I'm on Observation Duty 7 make?

$37k–$100k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I'm on Observation Duty 7 sell?

Q: How many copies did I'm on Observation Duty 7 sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 453 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $37k–$100k after Steam's cut $67k–$153k before Steam's cut; from 453 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 I'm on Observation Duty 7 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I'm on Observation Duty 7's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–4.8M

best case 4.6M (MiSide)

Games like I'm on Observation Duty 7

A typical game among these

≈ 2.6M–4.8M copies

≈ $16.6M–$40.0M after Steam's cut

from ~103k 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: MiSide at ≈ 3.5M–5.8M copies, ≈ $14.6M–$39.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 64k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Dark (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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