How much revenue did Viscera Cleanup Detail make?

$4.1M–$11.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Viscera Cleanup Detail sell?

Q: How many copies did Viscera Cleanup Detail sell?

1.2M to 1.9M copies, based on its 24k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.2M–1.9M; $4.1M–$11.1M after Steam's cut $7.5M–$17.1M before Steam's cut; from 24k 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 Viscera Cleanup Detail and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Viscera Cleanup Detail's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.4M–10.2M

best case 13.1M (7 Days to Die)

Games like Viscera Cleanup Detail

A typical game among these

≈ 3.4M–10.2M copies

≈ $37.6M–$185.7M after Steam's cut

from ~112k 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 FPS (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: 7 Days to Die at ≈ 9.9M–16.2M copies, ≈ $123.1M–$331.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share FPS (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $45.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of the 7 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
7 Days to Die 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9.9M–16.2M 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $123.1M–$331.0M after Steam's cut $223.8M–$509.2M before Steam's cut	$44.99	401k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
SteamVR unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	87k reviews Very Positive	VRSoftware
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III 2015	Est. copies ≈ 11.4M–18.6M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $188.7M–$507.3M after Steam's cut $343.1M–$780.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	234k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerZombies
Barotrauma 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.5M–$57.8M after Steam's cut $39.1M–$88.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	90k reviews Very Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.4M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	203k reviews Very Positive	HuntingOpen World
Ravenfield 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $13.6M–$36.7M after Steam's cut $24.8M–$56.4M before Steam's cut	$17.99	80k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSWar
Tabletop Simulator 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $20.0M–$53.8M after Steam's cut $36.4M–$82.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	75k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	TabletopBoard Game
Insurgency: Sandstorm 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $33.4M–$89.9M after Steam's cut $60.8M–$138.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	133k reviews Very Positive	FPSRealistic