How much revenue did Now Open! Horror House make?

$204–$548 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Now Open! Horror House sell?

Q: How many copies did Now Open! Horror House sell?

372 to 605 copies, based on its 15 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 372–605; $204–$548 after Steam's cut $370–$843 before Steam's cut; from 15 reviews (Mixed)

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 Now Open! Horror House and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Now Open! Horror House's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 275k–1.3M

best case 2.3M (Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation)

Games like Now Open! Horror House

A typical game among these

≈ 275k–1.3M copies

≈ $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $12.0M–$32.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 448 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Psychological Horror, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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 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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Mountain 2014	Est. copies ≈ 912k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $248k–$668k after Steam's cut $452k–$1.0M before Steam's cut	$0.99	16k reviews Very Positive	SimulationIndie
The Test: Hypothesis Rising 2020	Est. copies ≈ 147k–239k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $80k–$216k after Steam's cut $146k–$332k before Steam's cut	$1.99	6k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SimulationMultiple Endings
Yog-Sothoth’s Yard 2023	Est. copies ≈ 345k–561k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before Steam's cut	$10.99	14k reviews Very Positive	SimulationDating Sim
The Mortuary Assistant 2022	Est. copies ≈ 219k–356k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	9k reviews Very Positive	HorrorSupernatural
PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo 2023	Est. copies ≈ 181k–295k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $997k–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	7k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelAdventure
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.9M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	33k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayHorror
Lobotomy Corporation \| Monster Management Simulation 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.8M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.0M–$32.2M after Steam's cut $21.8M–$49.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	57k reviews Very Positive	ManagementDifficult
Unheard - Voices of Crime 2019	Est. copies ≈ 981k–1.6M 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.8M before Steam's cut	$6.99	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectivePuzzle