How much revenue did The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game make?

$57k–$152k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game sell?

Q: How many copies did The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game sell?

21k to 33k copies, based on its 831 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–33k; $57k–$152k after Steam's cut $103k–$234k before the cut; from 831 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 The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.2M–9.6M

best case 50.8M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like The Backrooms 1998 - Found Footage Survival Horror Game

The middle of these games

≈ 4.2M–9.6M copies

≈ $44.0M–$77.1M after Steam's cut

from ~138k 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: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 38.7M–62.9M copies, ≈ $212.7M–$571.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Survival Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Team-Based + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, 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 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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