How much revenue did Light the Backrooms make?

$102–$275 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Light the Backrooms sell?

Q: How many copies did Light the Backrooms sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $102–$275 after Steam's cut $185–$423 before the cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Thin evidence: 3 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Light the Backrooms out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Light the Backrooms's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–4.3M

best case 7.2M (Cry of Fear)

Games like Light the Backrooms

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–4.3M copies

≈ $10.7M–$21.7M after Steam's cut

from ~82k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cry of Fear at ≈ 5.5M–8.9M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 22k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Psychological Horror (8 of 8) and Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2025, 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 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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