How much revenue did SAHUR: Escape Together make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SAHUR: Escape Together sell?

Q: How many copies did SAHUR: Escape Together sell?

12k to 20k copies, based on its 502 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–20k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before Steam's cut; from 502 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 SAHUR: Escape Together and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SAHUR: Escape Together's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–3.4M

best case 12.2M (VRChat)

Games like SAHUR: Escape Together

A typical game among these

≈ 2.6M–3.4M copies

≈ $8.2M–$13.0M after Steam's cut

from ~75k 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 First-Person (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: VRChat at ≈ 9.3M–15.1M copies. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (4 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with First-Person. The breakout hits carry Free to Play + Multiplayer + First-Person; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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