How much revenue did Pillars of Sorrow make?

$205–$549 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pillars of Sorrow sell?

Q: How many copies did Pillars of Sorrow sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $205–$549 after Steam's cut $372–$845 before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Pillars of Sorrow out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pillars of Sorrow's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–3.4M

best case 7.2M (Cry of Fear)

Games like Pillars of Sorrow

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–3.4M copies

≈ $6.3M–$11.6M after Steam's cut

from ~56k 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: Cry of Fear at ≈ 5.5M–8.9M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 165 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Psychological (6 of 8) and Psychological Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror.
The era: The games you compared span 1997 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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