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How many copies did Midnight Scenes: From the Woods sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 5k–8k
$8k–$23k after Steam's cut $15k–$35k before the cut
from 205 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Midnight Scenes: From the Woods out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Midnight Scenes: From the Woods's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–1.8M
best case 27.3M (Phasmophobia)
Games like Midnight Scenes: From the Woods

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–1.8M copies

≈ $4.3M–$12.9M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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: Phasmophobia at ≈ 20.8M–33.8M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$307.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 40k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry VR + Online Co-Op + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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 70 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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