How much revenue did The Exit 8 make?

$317k–$853k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Exit 8 sell?

Q: How many copies did The Exit 8 sell?

289k to 470k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 289k–470k; $317k–$853k after Steam's cut $577k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 12k 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 The Exit 8 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Exit 8's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–3.8M

best case 11.6M (Outlast)

Games like The Exit 8

A typical game among these

≈ 2.4M–3.8M copies

≈ $16.9M–$39.6M after Steam's cut

from ~53k 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: Outlast at ≈ 8.8M–14.4M copies, ≈ $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (5 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2017, 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 43 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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INSIDE 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut $39.7M–$90.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	76k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	2.5DPuzzle-Platformer
What Remains of Edith Finch 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–3.0M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $10.1M–$27.2M after Steam's cut $18.4M–$41.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Story RichAtmospheric
Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.4M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut $66.3M–$150.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	140k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorFirst-Person
Amnesia: The Dark Descent 2010	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.4M–$33.4M after Steam's cut $22.6M–$51.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	36k reviews Very Positive	HorrorGore
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M 1.6x vs typical 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
The Talos Principle 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut $27.8M–$63.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzlePhilosophical
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III 2015	Est. copies ≈ 309k–501k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.1M before Steam's cut	$59.99	6k reviews Mostly Negative	MultiplayerFPS
SOMA 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.4M–$57.4M after Steam's cut $38.8M–$88.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	53k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Psychological Horror