How much revenue did Samurai Slaughter House make?

$12k–$32k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Samurai Slaughter House sell?

Q: How many copies did Samurai Slaughter House sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 58 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $12k–$32k after Steam's cut $22k–$49k before the cut; from 58 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Samurai Slaughter House out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Samurai Slaughter House's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–98k

best case 149k (Hellsplit: Arena)

Games like Samurai Slaughter House

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–98k copies

≈ $48k–$925k after Steam's cut

from ~926 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Hellsplit: Arena at ≈ 114k–185k copies, ≈ $783k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 88 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 48 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (8 of 8) and Swordplay (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Gore, priced around $25.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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