How much revenue did Scorn make?

$5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Scorn sell?

Q: How many copies did Scorn sell?

494k to 802k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 494k–802k; $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.5M before Steam's cut; from 20k 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 Scorn and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Scorn's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–4.0M

best case 8.5M (Resident Evil 2)

Games like Scorn

A typical game among these

≈ 1.8M–4.0M copies

≈ $19.0M–$42.8M after Steam's cut

from ~55k 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: Resident Evil 2 at ≈ 6.5M–10.5M copies, ≈ $70.9M–$190.7M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (8 of 8) and Survival Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2023, 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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