How much revenue did 35MM make?

$448k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 35MM sell?

Q: How many copies did 35MM sell?

181k to 295k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 181k–295k; $448k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $815k–$1.9M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 35MM and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 35MM's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 625k–6.6M

best case 12.1M (DOOM)

Games like 35MM

A typical game among these

≈ 625k–6.6M copies

≈ $4.3M–$67.2M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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 Horror (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: DOOM at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $50.7M–$136.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (4 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Gore, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2022, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Counter-Strike Nexon 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–4.0M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	43k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayFPS
Scorn 2022	Est. copies ≈ 494k–802k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	20k reviews Mostly Positive	GoreHorror
Infestation: The New Z 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	34k reviews Mixed	ZombiesFree to Play
DOOM 2016	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M 5.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $50.7M–$136.4M after Steam's cut $92.3M–$209.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	222k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	FPSGore
Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.4M 3.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.4M–$98.0M after Steam's cut $66.3M–$150.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	140k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorFirst-Person
Lunch Lady 2021	Est. copies ≈ 324k–527k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $445k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $809k–$1.8M before Steam's cut	$4.99	13k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Just Survive 2015	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	77k reviews Mixed	ZombiesSurvival
Call of Cthulhu® 2018	Est. copies ≈ 424k–690k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.3M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	14k reviews Mostly Positive	LovecraftianHorror