How much revenue did Paint the Town Red make?

$4.4M–$11.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Paint the Town Red sell?

Q: How many copies did Paint the Town Red sell?

801k to 1.3M copies, based on its 32k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 801k–1.3M; $4.4M–$11.8M after Steam's cut $8.0M–$18.2M before the cut; from 32k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Paint the Town Red out and predicted the genre from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Paint the Town Red's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.5M–11.9M

best case 48.3M (Dead by Daylight)

The Gore genre

All 5 of your similar games are hits. A big, proven genre for a game like yours.

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

A typical game

≈ 7.5M–11.9M copies

≈ $84.2M–$89.2M after Steam's cut

from ~220k reviews

Best case

≈ 36.8M–59.8M copies

Dead by Daylight · ≈ $202.4M–$544.3M after Steam's cut

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Gore (5 of 5) and Violent (3 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count.

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