How much revenue did Don't Knock Twice make?

$138k–$371k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Don't Knock Twice sell?

Q: How many copies did Don't Knock Twice sell?

25k to 41k copies, based on its 729 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–41k; $138k–$371k after Steam's cut $251k–$570k before the cut; from 729 reviews (Mostly 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 Don't Knock Twice out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Don't Knock Twice's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–5.5M

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Don't Knock Twice

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–5.5M copies

≈ $21.6M–$44.2M after Steam's cut

from ~105k 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.4M–$307.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 33k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 22k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (7 of 8) and VR (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Supernatural + Online Co-Op + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 1 of your 7 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 43 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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