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How many copies did We're Here, Papa sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 546–887
$749–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut
from 22 reviews (Mostly 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 We're Here, Papa and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including We're Here, Papa's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.5M–5.1M
best case 5.4M (Escape the Backrooms)
Games like We're Here, Papa

A typical game among these

≈ 2.5M–5.1M copies

≈ $9.4M–$52.4M after Steam's cut

from ~87k 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: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 392 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 + Psychological Horror, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2014 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 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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Est. copies
≈ 1.2M–1.9M
SteamSpy 1M–2M
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$2.2M–$6.0M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.2M before Steam's cut
$6.99
47k reviews
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1.9x vs typical
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≈ 3.8M–6.2M
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$39.99
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