How much revenue did The Evil Within make?

$10.4M–$27.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Evil Within sell?

Q: How many copies did The Evil Within sell?

1.9M to 3.1M copies, based on its 34k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.9M–3.1M; $10.4M–$27.9M after Steam's cut $18.9M–$42.9M before the cut; from 34k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Evil Within out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Evil Within's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.0M–13.2M

best case 51.0M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like The Evil Within

The middle of these games

≈ 10.0M–13.2M copies

≈ $64.2M–$138.9M after Steam's cut

from ~272k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 38.8M–63.1M copies, ≈ $213.5M–$574.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 55k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 35k to 68k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and Survival Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 52 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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