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How many copies did Scary Humans sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 250–406
$687–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut
from 6 reviews (6 user reviews)
Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Scary Humans and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Scary Humans's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 147–431
best case 3k (Hunter Girls)
Games like Scary Humans

A typical game among these

≈ 147–431 copies

≈ $150–$1k after Steam's cut

from ~6 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hunter Girls at ≈ 2k–3k copies, ≈ $3k–$7k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 4 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 44.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Arcade (6 of 8) and Dungeon Crawler (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Precision Platformer + Side Scroller, priced around $5.
When they shipped
4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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