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How many copies did Hello Neighbor VR: Search and Rescue sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 7k–12k
$61k–$164k after Steam's cut $111k–$252k before the cut
from 298 reviews (Mostly 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 Hello Neighbor VR: Search and Rescue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hello Neighbor VR: Search and Rescue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.5M–5.1M
best case 5.3M (Escape the Backrooms)
Games like Hello Neighbor VR: Search and Rescue

The middle of these games

≈ 2.5M–5.1M copies

≈ $9.3M–$51.9M after Steam's cut

from ~87k 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: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.0M–6.6M copies, ≈ $11.1M–$29.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 392 to 114k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Survival Horror (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $10.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 1 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 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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