How much revenue did VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape) make?

$12k–$31k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape) sell?

Q: How many copies did VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape) sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 252 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; $12k–$31k after Steam's cut $21k–$48k before Steam's cut; from 252 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 VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape) and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape)'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 373k–586k

best case 632k (Escape Simulator)

Games like VR: Vacate the Room (Virtual Reality Escape)

A typical game among these

≈ 373k–586k copies

≈ $1.9M–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~15k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Escape Simulator at ≈ 482k–783k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Escape Room (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Co-op, priced around $20.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 43 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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The House of Da Vinci 2017	Est. copies ≈ 253k–410k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	7k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleAdventure
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