How much revenue did Duck Season PC make?

$87k–$234k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Duck Season PC sell?

Q: How many copies did Duck Season PC sell?

32k to 52k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 32k–52k; $87k–$234k after Steam's cut $159k–$361k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Very 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 Duck Season PC and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Duck Season PC's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–5.7M

best case 27.4M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Duck Season PC

A typical game among these

≈ 3.9M–5.7M copies

≈ $21.7M–$56.6M after Steam's cut

from ~134k 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.9M–33.9M copies, ≈ $114.8M–$308.5M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 37k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (8 of 8) and Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Co-op + Exploration; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2025, and 2 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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