How much revenue did Doors: Paradox make?

$214k–$576k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Doors: Paradox sell?

Q: How many copies did Doors: Paradox sell?

52k to 84k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 52k–84k; $214k–$576k after Steam's cut $390k–$886k before the cut; from 2k 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 Doors: Paradox out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Doors: Paradox's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–2.4M

best case 6.7M (Papers, Please)

Games like Doors: Paradox

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–2.4M copies

≈ $5.9M–$22.0M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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: Papers, Please at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $13.9M–$37.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Multiple Endings (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Political + Simulation, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 79 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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