How much revenue did Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? make?

$173k–$465k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? sell?

Q: How many copies did Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? sell?

42k to 68k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 42k–68k; $173k–$465k after Steam's cut $315k–$715k before Steam's cut; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 599k–672k

best case 5.4M (Escape the Backrooms)

Games like Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

A typical game among these

≈ 599k–672k copies

≈ $2.1M–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.6M 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 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Escape Room (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Escape Room, priced around $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, 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 70 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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