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How many copies did Exorcist: Reviewer of Minds sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut
from 63 reviews (Very 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 Exorcist: Reviewer of Minds and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Exorcist: Reviewer of Minds's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 903k–2.3M
best case 5.3M (DAVE THE DIVER)
Games like Exorcist: Reviewer of Minds

A typical game among these

≈ 903k–2.3M copies

≈ $5.6M–$23.7M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Management (2 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: DAVE THE DIVER at ≈ 4.0M–6.6M copies, ≈ $22.2M–$59.8M 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 30k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 69k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Management (2 of 8) and Martial Arts (2 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Management + Exploration, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Casual + Adventure + Relaxing; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2012 to 2026, 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).

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