How much revenue did Selene's Unbearable Night make?

$14k–$38k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Selene's Unbearable Night sell?

Q: How many copies did Selene's Unbearable Night sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 173 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $26k–$59k before Steam's cut; from 173 reviews (Mostly 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 Selene's Unbearable Night and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Selene's Unbearable Night's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–2.5M

best case 9.1M (Resident Evil 4)

Games like Selene's Unbearable Night

A typical game among these

≈ 1.9M–2.5M copies

≈ $19.0M–$20.4M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 7.0M–11.3M copies, ≈ $76.4M–$205.5M 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 21k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 68k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and Third Person (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Third Person, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Third-Person Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2023, and none of them 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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Alan Wake 2012	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.7M–$42.1M after Steam's cut $28.5M–$64.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	60k reviews Very Positive	ActionHorror
Dead Space (2008) 2009	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–3.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.2M–$27.3M after Steam's cut $18.5M–$42.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	29k reviews Very Positive	HorrorSci-fi
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
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