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How many copies did Bitten! Someone has to be a villain sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 248–403
$204–$548 after Steam's cut $371–$843 before the cut
from 10 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Bitten! Someone has to be a villain out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Bitten! Someone has to be a villain's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 28k–90k
best case 29.7M (Among Us)
Games like Bitten! Someone has to be a villain

The middle of these games

≈ 28k–90k copies

≈ $218k–$468k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

4 of your 8 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 279 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Social Deduction (8 of 8) and Party Game (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Social Deduction + Space, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Space + 2D + Psychological; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 1 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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