How much revenue did A Demon's Game - Episode 1 make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Demon's Game - Episode 1 sell?

Q: How many copies did A Demon's Game - Episode 1 sell?

4k to 7k copies, based on its 117 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–7k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut; from 117 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 A Demon's Game - Episode 1 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Demon's Game - Episode 1's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.6M–4.8M

best case 4.6M (MiSide)

Games like A Demon's Game - Episode 1

A typical game among these

≈ 2.6M–4.8M copies

≈ $16.6M–$40.0M after Steam's cut

from ~103k 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: MiSide at ≈ 3.5M–5.8M copies, ≈ $14.6M–$39.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 64k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Dark (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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