How much revenue did Psycho on the loose make?

$6k–$17k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Psycho on the loose sell?

Q: How many copies did Psycho on the loose sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 92 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $6k–$17k after Steam's cut $11k–$26k before Steam's cut; from 92 reviews (Mixed)

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 Psycho on the loose and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Psycho on the loose's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.4M–11.2M

best case 10.4M (Schedule I)

Games like Psycho on the loose

A typical game among these

≈ 7.4M–11.2M copies

≈ $96.9M–$173.8M after Steam's cut

from ~205k 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: Schedule I at ≈ 7.9M–12.8M copies, ≈ $43.4M–$116.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 72k reviews in their first month; the range was 68k to 153k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Co-op, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 1998 to 2025, 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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