How much revenue did Emily Wants To Play make?

$156k–$420k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Emily Wants To Play sell?

Q: How many copies did Emily Wants To Play sell?

114k to 185k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 114k–185k; $156k–$420k after Steam's cut $284k–$645k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Emily Wants To Play and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Emily Wants To Play's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–5.2M

best case 5.4M (Escape the Backrooms)

Games like Emily Wants To Play

A typical game among these

≈ 2.2M–5.2M copies

≈ $7.6M–$60.3M after Steam's cut

from ~88k 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.

Best case: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 15k reviews in their first month; the range was 392 to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Survival Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 2 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 70 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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