How much revenue did Escape from the Cannibal Family make?

$579–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape from the Cannibal Family sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape from the Cannibal Family sell?

422 to 685 copies, based on its 17 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 422–685; $579–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before Steam's cut; from 17 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 Escape from the Cannibal Family and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape from the Cannibal Family's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–5.2M

best case 51.1M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like Escape from the Cannibal Family

A typical game among these

≈ 2.9M–5.2M copies

≈ $21.6M–$61.9M after Steam's cut

from ~88k 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: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 39.0M–63.3M copies, ≈ $214.2M–$575.9M 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 26k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Survival Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Team-Based + Survival + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2025, 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 79 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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