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How many copies did Ergastulum: Dungeon Nightmares III sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–3k
$5k–$12k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut
from 84 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 Ergastulum: Dungeon Nightmares III and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ergastulum: Dungeon Nightmares III's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.6M–16.6M
best case 88.0M (Left 4 Dead 2)
Games like Ergastulum: Dungeon Nightmares III

A typical game among these

≈ 6.6M–16.6M copies

≈ $72.5M–$214.6M after Steam's cut

from ~195k 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: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 67.0M–108.9M copies, ≈ $184.1M–$495.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share First-Person (5 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2009 to 2021, and none of them 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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