How much revenue did Alien Hallway make?

$28k–$76k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alien Hallway sell?

Q: How many copies did Alien Hallway sell?

21k to 33k copies, based on its 325 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–33k; $28k–$76k after Steam's cut $51k–$117k before Steam's cut; from 325 reviews (Mixed)

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 Alien Hallway and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alien Hallway's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 525–475k

best case 3.7M (Ring of Elysium)

Games like Alien Hallway

A typical game among these

≈ 525–475k copies

≈ $4k–$56k after Steam's cut

from ~287 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is MOBA (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Ring of Elysium at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 283 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share MOBA (4 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, 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 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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两体 2021	Est. copies ≈ 50–81 SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $83–$221 after Steam's cut $150–$340 before Steam's cut	$5.99	2 reviews 2 user reviews	Early AccessCasual
Monday Night Combat 2011	Est. copies ≈ 76k–124k 4.2x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $105k–$282k after Steam's cut $190k–$433k before Steam's cut	$4.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	Hero ShooterAction
War of Wizards 2022	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $24k–$64k after Steam's cut $43k–$98k before Steam's cut	$19.99	174 reviews Mostly Positive	VRMOBA
Ring of Elysium 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M 345x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	99k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayBattle Royale
Bloons TD Battles 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M 102x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	29k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayTower Defense
Warriors Of Titus 2018	Est. copies ≈ 426–692 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before Steam's cut	$19.99	14 reviews Positive	ActionVR
SKYRAID 2022	Est. copies ≈ 322–524 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut	$19.99	13 reviews Positive	Early AccessTactical
WAR RATS: The Rat em Up 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $33k–$88k after Steam's cut $59k–$135k before Steam's cut	$11.99	399 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessShoot 'Em Up