How much revenue did CORPSE FACTORY make?

$120k–$322k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did CORPSE FACTORY sell?

Q: How many copies did CORPSE FACTORY sell?

22k to 35k copies, based on its 879 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 22k–35k; $120k–$322k after Steam's cut $218k–$496k before the cut; from 879 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 CORPSE FACTORY out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including CORPSE FACTORY's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 335k–491k

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like CORPSE FACTORY

The middle of these games

≈ 335k–491k copies

≈ $2.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (7 of 8) and Visual Novel (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $13. The breakout hits carry Dark + Dating Sim + Cute; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 1 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 43 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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