How much revenue did Escape Academy make?

$188k–$505k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Escape Academy sell?

Q: How many copies did Escape Academy sell?

34k to 56k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 34k–56k; $188k–$505k after Steam's cut $342k–$777k before the cut; from 1k 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 Escape Academy out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Escape Academy's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.8M–4.6M

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Escape Academy

The middle of these games

≈ 1.8M–4.6M copies

≈ $5.8M–$11.6M after Steam's cut

from ~59k 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: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies.

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 27k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (5 of 8) and Anime (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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