How much revenue did I'm on Observation Duty 4 make?

$29k–$78k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did I'm on Observation Duty 4 sell?

Q: How many copies did I'm on Observation Duty 4 sell?

21k to 34k copies, based on its 850 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–34k; $29k–$78k after Steam's cut $53k–$120k before the cut; from 850 reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 I'm on Observation Duty 4 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including I'm on Observation Duty 4's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.0M–4.7M

best case 4.1M (Buckshot Roulette)

Games like I'm on Observation Duty 4

The middle of these games

≈ 2.0M–4.7M copies

≈ $9.0M–$19.2M after Steam's cut

from ~75k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Horror (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Buckshot Roulette at ≈ 3.1M–5.0M copies, ≈ $2.5M–$6.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (4 of 8) and Psychological (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dark + Gambling, priced around $3.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 2 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 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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