How much revenue did The Inner Descent VR make?

$96–$257 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Inner Descent VR sell?

Q: How many copies did The Inner Descent VR sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $96–$257 after Steam's cut $175–$396 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 The Inner Descent VR and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Inner Descent VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 663k–5.8M

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like The Inner Descent VR

A typical game among these

≈ 663k–5.8M copies

≈ $10.2M–$44.5M after Steam's cut

from ~86k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 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 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (8 of 8) and Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 3 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 43 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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