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How many copies did Tormented Souls sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 202k–327k
$1.1M–$3.0M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.6M before the cut
from 8k reviews (Very Positive)

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

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.3M–5.1M
best case 8.4M (Resident Evil 2)
Games like Tormented Souls

The middle of these games

≈ 4.3M–5.1M copies

≈ $11.1M–$40.6M after Steam's cut

from ~110k 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: Resident Evil 2 at ≈ 6.4M–10.4M copies, ≈ $70.1M–$188.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Dark (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Remake + Third Person + Action; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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