How much revenue did The Utility Room make?

$25k–$68k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Utility Room sell?

Q: How many copies did The Utility Room sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 285 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $25k–$68k after Steam's cut $46k–$104k before the cut; from 285 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 Utility Room out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Utility Room's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.8M–19.7M

best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)

Games like The Utility Room

The middle of these games

≈ 7.8M–19.7M copies

≈ $112.1M–$177.8M after Steam's cut

from ~268k 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$307.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 34 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 40k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (8 of 8) and Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 3 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 52 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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