How much revenue did Ghostist make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Ghostist sell?

Q: How many copies did Ghostist sell?

918 to 1k copies, based on its 37 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 918–1k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before the cut; from 37 reviews (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 Ghostist out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ghostist's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 46k–162k

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like Ghostist

The middle of these games

≈ 46k–162k copies

≈ $124k–$715k after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$307.1M 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 611 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Investigation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Co-op + VR + Online Co-Op; a typical game here doesn't.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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