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How big is Interactive Horror Stories?

Estimated owners
≈ 4k–7k
from 149 reviews (Mixed)

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 Interactive Horror Stories out and predicted the genre from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Interactive Horror Stories's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 170k–446k
best case 478k (A Date with Death)
Games like Interactive Horror Stories

The middle of these games

≈ 170k–446k copies

from ~5k reviews

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

All 5 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: A Date with Death at ≈ 364k–592k copies.

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 922 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Choose Your Own Adventure (4 of 5) and Visual Novel (4 of 5).
The winners
Winners here lead with Dating Sim + Visual Novel.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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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