How much revenue did Presence make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Presence sell?

Q: How many copies did Presence sell?

3k to 4k copies, based on its 106 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–4k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before the cut; from 106 reviews (Mostly 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 Presence out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Presence's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–12.0M

best case 50.8M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like Presence

The middle of these games

≈ 2.3M–12.0M copies

≈ $30.7M–$86.9M after Steam's cut

from ~95k 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: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 38.7M–62.9M copies, ≈ $212.7M–$571.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Gore (8 of 8) and Blood (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, 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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