How much revenue did Basement of Hellish make?

$162–$436 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Basement of Hellish sell?

Q: How many copies did Basement of Hellish sell?

595 to 967 copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595–967; $162–$436 after Steam's cut $295–$670 before the cut; from 24 reviews (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 Basement of Hellish out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Basement of Hellish's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 285–604k

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Basement of Hellish

The middle of these games

≈ 285–604k copies

≈ $832–$129k after Steam's cut

from ~248 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: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 26k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dark (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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