How much revenue did The Cursed Forest make?

$99k–$266k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Cursed Forest sell?

Q: How many copies did The Cursed Forest sell?

26k to 42k copies, based on its 892 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–42k; $99k–$266k after Steam's cut $180k–$409k before Steam's cut; from 892 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 Cursed Forest and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Cursed Forest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.9M–11.3M

best case 27.5M (Fallout 4)

Games like The Cursed Forest

A typical game among these

≈ 7.9M–11.3M copies

≈ $81.8M–$109.5M after Steam's cut

from ~176k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (4 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: Fallout 4 at ≈ 21.0M–34.1M copies, ≈ $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (4 of 8) and Exploration (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Adventure + Open World + Exploration; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2020, and none of them 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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Fallout 4 2015	Est. copies ≈ 21.0M–34.1M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut $209.4M–$476.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	429k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldPost-apocalyptic
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition 2016	Est. copies ≈ 15.8M–25.6M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $173.2M–$465.8M after Steam's cut $315.0M–$716.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	379k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldRPG
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