How much revenue did Traitors in Salem make?

Traitors in Salem is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Traitors in Salem sell?

Q: How many copies did Traitors in Salem sell?

27k to 43k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 27k–43k; from 1k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 249k–500k

best case 29.7M (Among Us)

Games like Traitors in Salem

The middle of these games

≈ 249k–500k copies

≈ $593k–$2.5M 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: Among Us at ≈ 22.7M–36.8M copies, ≈ $31.1M–$83.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 47 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Social Deduction (7 of 8) and Conversation (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Social Deduction + Space, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry 2D + Psychological + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 3 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 38 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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