How much revenue did Alice: Madness Returns make?

$5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alice: Madness Returns sell?

Q: How many copies did Alice: Madness Returns sell?

1.9M to 3.2M copies, based on its 31k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.9M–3.2M; $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.1M before the cut; from 31k 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 Alice: Madness Returns out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alice: Madness Returns's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 820k–1.4M

best case 24.0M (DARK SOULS™ III)

Games like Alice: Madness Returns

The middle of these games

≈ 820k–1.4M copies

≈ $8.6M–$11.3M after Steam's cut

from ~22k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Dark Fantasy (3 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: DARK SOULS™ III at ≈ 18.3M–29.7M copies, ≈ $301.6M–$810.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dark Fantasy (3 of 8) and Female Protagonist (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Atmospheric + Third Person + Souls-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, and none of them 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 61 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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DARK SOULS™ III 2016	Est. copies ≈ 18.3M–29.7M 20x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $301.6M–$810.8M after Steam's cut $548.3M–$1247.4M before the cut	$59.99	439k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.3M 3.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.7M–$58.3M after Steam's cut $39.5M–$89.8M before the cut	$29.99	76k reviews Very Positive	AtmosphericPsychological
Police Simulator: Patrol Officers 2022	Est. copies ≈ 568k–922k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.6M after Steam's cut $8.5M–$19.4M before the cut	$29.99	23k reviews Mostly Positive	SimulationCrime
Dungeons 3 2017	Est. copies ≈ 644k–1.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.3M–$14.3M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.0M before the cut	$29.99	19k reviews Very Positive	StrategyVillain Protagonist
A Plague Tale: Innocence 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.3M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $22.6M–$60.8M after Steam's cut $41.1M–$93.6M before the cut	$39.99	71k reviews Very Positive	Story RichAdventure
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin 2015	Est. copies ≈ 6.4M–10.4M 5.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $70.7M–$190.0M after Steam's cut $128.5M–$292.3M before the cut	$39.99	132k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
Fran Bow 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.6M–$12.4M after Steam's cut $8.4M–$19.1M before the cut	$14.99	23k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Psychological Horror Story Rich
Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide 2015	Est. copies ≈ 1.0M–1.7M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.6M–$23.2M after Steam's cut $15.7M–$35.7M before the cut	$29.99	21k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionOnline Co-Op