How much revenue did What the Fog make?

$81k–$218k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did What the Fog sell?

Q: How many copies did What the Fog sell?

59k to 96k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 59k–96k; $81k–$218k after Steam's cut $148k–$336k before the cut; from 2k 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 What the Fog out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including What the Fog's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 877k–5.5M

best case 33.1M (The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth)

Games like What the Fog

The middle of these games

≈ 877k–5.5M copies

≈ $7.4M–$47.2M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth at ≈ 25.2M–41.0M copies, ≈ $104.0M–$279.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 37k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 103k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Rogue-like (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-like, priced around $15.
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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