How much revenue did Superliminal make?

$4.6M–$12.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Superliminal sell?

Q: How many copies did Superliminal sell?

843k to 1.4M copies, based on its 34k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 843k–1.4M; $4.6M–$12.5M after Steam's cut $8.4M–$19.2M before the cut; from 34k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Superliminal out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Superliminal's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.6M

best case 4.8M (Inscryption)

Games like Superliminal

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–2.6M copies

≈ $11.4M–$20.7M after Steam's cut

from ~30k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Inscryption at ≈ 3.7M–6.0M copies, ≈ $20.2M–$54.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (7 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Dark, priced around $11. The breakout hits carry Dark + Card Battler + Card Game; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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