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

$36k–$98k 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 446 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $36k–$98k after Steam's cut $66k–$151k before the cut; from 446 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left I'm on Observation Duty 7 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I'm on Observation Duty 7's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–2.6M

best case 4.6M (Poppy Playtime)

Games like I'm on Observation Duty 7

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–2.6M copies

≈ $13.8M–$30.6M after Steam's cut

from ~53k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Poppy Playtime at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Dark (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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