How much revenue did IMSCARED make?

$182k–$490k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did IMSCARED sell?

Q: How many copies did IMSCARED sell?

166k to 270k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 166k–270k; $182k–$490k after Steam's cut $331k–$754k before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 IMSCARED and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including IMSCARED's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.3M–10.6M

best case 51.1M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like IMSCARED

A typical game among these

≈ 5.3M–10.6M copies

≈ $41.8M–$72.5M after Steam's cut

from ~164k 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: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 39.0M–63.3M copies, ≈ $214.2M–$575.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 41k reviews in their first month; the range was 35k to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and First-Person (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Co-op, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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 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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