How much revenue did The Mortuary Assistant make?

$1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Mortuary Assistant sell?

Q: How many copies did The Mortuary Assistant sell?

216k to 351k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 216k–351k; $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.1M before the cut; from 9k 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 The Mortuary Assistant out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including The Mortuary Assistant's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 294k–3.1M

best case 11.5M (Outlast)

Games like The Mortuary Assistant

The middle of these games

≈ 294k–3.1M copies

≈ $3.2M–$35.6M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Outlast at ≈ 8.7M–14.2M copies, ≈ $36.0M–$96.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 781 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 534 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (3 of 4) and Horror (3 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2022, 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 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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MADiSON 2022	Est. copies ≈ 85k–138k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $819k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M before the cut	$34.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Fears to Fathom - Home Alone 2021	Est. copies ≈ 274k–446k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	11k reviews Very Positive	AdventureCasual
Visage 2020	Est. copies ≈ 271k–440k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.0M after Steam's cut $4.7M–$10.8M before the cut	$34.99	11k reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.7M–14.2M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.0M–$96.9M after Steam's cut $65.5M–$149.1M before the cut	$14.99	138k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorFirst-Person