How much revenue did Stirring Abyss make?

$75k–$202k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stirring Abyss sell?

Q: How many copies did Stirring Abyss sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 440 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $75k–$202k after Steam's cut $136k–$310k before the cut; from 440 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 Stirring Abyss out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stirring Abyss's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 55k–112k

best case 229k (We Need To Go Deeper)

Games like Stirring Abyss

The middle of these games

≈ 55k–112k copies

≈ $144k–$898k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: We Need To Go Deeper at ≈ 174k–283k copies, ≈ $766k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 333 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 239 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Underwater (5 of 8) and Lovecraftian (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Lovecraftian, priced around $16.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 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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