How much revenue did Life Eater make?

$39k–$106k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Life Eater sell?

Q: How many copies did Life Eater sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 386 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $39k–$106k after Steam's cut $72k–$163k before Steam's cut; from 386 reviews (Very 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 Life Eater and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Life Eater's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–63k

best case 203k (Killer Frequency)

Games like Life Eater

A typical game among these

≈ 10k–63k copies

≈ $21k–$367k after Steam's cut

from ~361 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Killer Frequency at ≈ 155k–251k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 95 reviews in their first month; the range was 13 to 740.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Interactive Fiction (8 of 8) and Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 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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