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How many copies did Abnormality sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 8k–13k
$22k–$59k after Steam's cut $40k–$90k before Steam's cut
from 320 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 Abnormality and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Abnormality's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–5.1M
best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)
Games like Abnormality

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–5.1M copies

≈ $5.0M–$29.8M after Steam's cut

from ~60k 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 55k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and Psychological Horror (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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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