How much revenue did Among Us make?

$31.3M–$84.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Among Us sell?

Q: How many copies did Among Us sell?

22.8M to 37.0M copies, based on its 749k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22.8M–37.0M; $31.3M–$84.0M after Steam's cut $56.8M–$129.3M before Steam's cut; from 749k 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 Among Us and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Among Us's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 380k–1.8M

best case 4.2M (Deceit)

Games like Among Us

A typical game among these

≈ 380k–1.8M copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: Deceit at ≈ 3.2M–5.1M copies.

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 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Social Deduction (6 of 8) and Horror (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Social Deduction.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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In Silence 2021	Est. copies ≈ 296k–482k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $815k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	12k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Town of Salem 2014	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.3M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.5M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	36k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerStrategy
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Fear Surrounds 2021	Est. copies ≈ 269k–437k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerHorror
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