How much revenue did Ghostship Aftermath make?

$17k–$45k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ghostship Aftermath sell?

Q: How many copies did Ghostship Aftermath sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 108 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $17k–$45k after Steam's cut $30k–$69k before Steam's cut; from 108 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Ghostship Aftermath and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ghostship Aftermath's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.4M–12.2M

best case 13.9M (R.E.P.O.)

Games like Ghostship Aftermath

A typical game among these

≈ 3.4M–12.2M copies

≈ $47.3M–$71.6M after Steam's cut

from ~124k 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: R.E.P.O. at ≈ 10.6M–17.2M copies, ≈ $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 44k reviews in their first month; the range was 20k to 67k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Survival Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Comedy, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
R.E.P.O. 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10.6M–17.2M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut $52.9M–$120.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	427k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.4M 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
Alien: Isolation 2014	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $41.3M–$110.9M after Steam's cut $75.0M–$170.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	67k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.6M–18.8M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.5M–$256.7M after Steam's cut $173.6M–$395.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	381k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Barotrauma 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.5M–$57.8M after Steam's cut $39.1M–$88.9M before Steam's cut	$34.99	90k reviews Very Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
SCP: Secret Laboratory 2017	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.1M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	235k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
Dead Space 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $29.2M–$78.4M after Steam's cut $53.0M–$120.7M before Steam's cut	$59.99	71k reviews Very Positive	HorrorThird-Person Shooter
Subnautica: Below Zero 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.7M–4.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.2M–$59.7M after Steam's cut $40.4M–$91.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	109k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival