How many copies did Welcome To The Backrooms sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 151 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Welcome To The Backrooms make?

Welcome To The Backrooms is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Welcome To The Backrooms?

Estimated owners: ≈ 4k–6k; from 151 reviews (Mixed)

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 Welcome To The Backrooms out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Welcome To The Backrooms's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–111k

best case 685k (Ghostwire: Tokyo)

Games like Welcome To The Backrooms

The middle of these games

≈ 15k–111k copies

≈ $60k–$803k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ghostwire: Tokyo at ≈ 522k–848k copies, ≈ $8.6M–$23.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 378 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 38 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Supernatural + Open World, priced around $60.
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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