How much revenue did The Candle make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Candle sell?

Q: How many copies did The Candle sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 83 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before Steam's cut; from 83 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 Candle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Candle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–32k

best case 413k (Amnesia: The Bunker)

Games like The Candle

A typical game among these

≈ 3k–32k copies

≈ $12k–$226k after Steam's cut

from ~163 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (3 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: Amnesia: The Bunker at ≈ 314k–511k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 76 reviews in their first month; the range was 7 to 3k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (3 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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Amnesia: The Bunker 2023	Est. copies ≈ 314k–511k 78x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$8.9M before Steam's cut	$24.99	13k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
FACTORY RUNNER 2020	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	103 reviews Mixed	Immersive SimLife Sim
Gaming Cafe Life 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $11k–$26k before Steam's cut	$5.99	153 reviews Very Positive	SimulationSandbox
The Stairway 7 - Anomaly Hunt Loop Horror Game 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $11k–$29k after Steam's cut $19k–$44k before Steam's cut	$8.99	173 reviews Very Positive	ActionPsychological Horror
Scrapping Simulator 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $12k–$26k before Steam's cut	$12.99	72 reviews Very Positive	ColorfulCasual
Crazy Islands 2025	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$30k before Steam's cut	$13.99	75 reviews Mixed	AdventureSurvival
[Chilla's Art] The Caregiver \| 終焉介護 2021	Est. copies ≈ 11k–19k 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $29k–$65k before Steam's cut	$4.99	463 reviews Very Positive	HorrorInvestigation
No Time 2019	Est. copies ≈ 64k–105k 14x vs typical SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $230k–$618k after Steam's cut $418k–$951k before Steam's cut	$12.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Time TravelTime Manipulation