How much revenue did Scanner Sombre make?

$303k–$814k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Scanner Sombre sell?

Q: How many copies did Scanner Sombre sell?

157k to 256k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 157k–256k; $303k–$814k after Steam's cut $550k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Scanner Sombre and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Scanner Sombre's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–3.2M

best case 5.5M (Firewatch)

Games like Scanner Sombre

A typical game among these

≈ 1.9M–3.2M copies

≈ $15.2M–$37.0M after Steam's cut

from ~53k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Firewatch at ≈ 4.2M–6.8M copies, ≈ $22.9M–$61.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Story Rich (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Walking Simulator, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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Firewatch 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.9M–$61.5M after Steam's cut $41.6M–$94.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	100k reviews Very Positive	AdventureAtmospheric
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