How much revenue did Mouthwashing make?

$0 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?

0 copies, based on its 0 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Too new to estimate: Games in its genre sell ≈ 2.0M–2.9M That is the genre's figure, not a prediction for this game.; No reviews yet, so there is nothing to estimate from. That is not the same as selling nothing.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Mouthwashing and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Mouthwashing's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–2.9M

best case 4.6M (MiSide)

Games like Mouthwashing

A typical game among these

≈ 2.0M–2.9M copies

≈ $20.4M–$22.7M after Steam's cut

from ~59k 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. 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 24k reviews in their first month; the range was 8k to 64k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Cute + Sexual Content + 3D; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, and 2 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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The Evil Within 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.7M–$31.6M after Steam's cut $21.4M–$48.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	31k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Outlast 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.2M–$32.9M after Steam's cut $22.2M–$50.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	65k reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
SILENT HILL 2 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.7M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $31.4M–$84.4M after Steam's cut $57.1M–$129.8M before Steam's cut	$69.99	66k reviews Very Positive	Psychological Horror Horror
Little Nightmares II 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.0M–$32.3M after Steam's cut $21.8M–$49.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	59k reviews Very Positive	HorrorAdventure
MiSide 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.8M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $14.6M–$39.2M after Steam's cut $26.5M–$60.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	143k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological HorrorCute
The Evil Within 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.4M–$28.0M after Steam's cut $18.9M–$43.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	34k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $6.2M–$16.8M after Steam's cut $11.4M–$25.8M before Steam's cut	$7.99	83k reviews Very Positive	Psychological HorrorDifficult