How much revenue did The Backrooms: Found Footage make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Backrooms: Found Footage sell?

Q: How many copies did The Backrooms: Found Footage sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 63 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut; from 63 reviews (Mostly 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 The Backrooms: Found Footage out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Backrooms: Found Footage's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 399–150k

best case 626k (Minecraft Dungeons)

Games like The Backrooms: Found Footage

The middle of these games

≈ 399–150k copies

≈ $1k–$536k after Steam's cut

from ~532 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Minecraft Dungeons at ≈ 477k–775k copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 297 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dungeon Crawler (8 of 8) and Exploration (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dungeon Crawler + Hack and Slash, priced around $20.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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