How much revenue did Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's sell?

Q: How many copies did Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's sell?

2k copies, based on its 61 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before the cut; from 61 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 Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39k–605k

best case 1.5M (We Were Here)

Games like Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's

The middle of these games

≈ 39k–605k copies

≈ $623k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: We Were Here at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 329 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 161 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (8 of 8) and Mystery (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Escape Room.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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