How much revenue did Mouthwashing make?

$3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Mouthwashing sell?

Q: How many copies did Mouthwashing sell?

958k to 1.6M copies, based on its 39k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 958k–1.6M; $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.2M before the cut; from 39k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Mouthwashing out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mouthwashing's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–3.2M

best case 4.6M (MiSide)

Games like Mouthwashing

The middle of these games

≈ 2.1M–3.2M copies

≈ $21.0M–$23.9M after Steam's cut

from ~62k 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.

Best case: MiSide at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $14.5M–$39.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 24k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8k to 64k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 2 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 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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