How much revenue did The Cabin Factory make?

$78k–$209k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Cabin Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did The Cabin Factory sell?

95k to 154k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 95k–154k; $78k–$209k after Steam's cut $142k–$322k before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 The Cabin Factory and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Cabin Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–3.6M

best case 11.6M (Outlast)

Games like The Cabin Factory

A typical game among these

≈ 2.0M–3.6M copies

≈ $11.6M–$31.2M after Steam's cut

from ~36k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Outlast at ≈ 8.8M–14.4M copies, ≈ $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and Psychological Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, 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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Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.4M 3.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut $66.3M–$150.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	140k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorFirst-Person
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