How much revenue did Paradise Killer make?

$615k–$1.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Paradise Killer sell?

Q: How many copies did Paradise Killer sell?

112k to 182k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 112k–182k; $615k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before the cut; from 5k 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 Paradise Killer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paradise Killer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 196k–295k

best case 345k (No Case Should Remain Unsolved)

Games like Paradise Killer

The middle of these games

≈ 196k–295k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: No Case Should Remain Unsolved at ≈ 263k–427k copies, ≈ $505k–$1.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 366 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Female Protagonist (6 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Interactive Fiction + Puzzle, priced around $7.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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