How much revenue did Escape Simulator make?

$2.6M–$7.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape Simulator sell?

479k to 779k copies, based on its 19k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 479k–779k; $2.6M–$7.1M after Steam's cut $4.8M–$10.9M before the cut; from 19k 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 Escape Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–9.6M

best case 38.6M (Portal 2)

Games like Escape Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 4.4M–9.6M copies

≈ $27.9M–$130.6M after Steam's cut

from ~174k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Puzzle (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.4M–47.8M copies, ≈ $80.8M–$217.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (4 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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 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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