How much revenue did Descent of the Hunted make?

$735–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Descent of the Hunted sell?

Q: How many copies did Descent of the Hunted sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $735–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 18 reviews (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 Descent of the Hunted and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Descent of the Hunted's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 371k–4.8M

best case 10.3M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Descent of the Hunted

A typical game among these

≈ 371k–4.8M copies

≈ $1.9M–$5.6M after Steam's cut

from ~36k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Visual Novel (6 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 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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