How much revenue did Containment Search make?

$20–$55 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Containment Search sell?

Q: How many copies did Containment Search sell?

25 to 40 copies, based on its 1 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25–40; $20–$55 after Steam's cut $37–$84 before the cut; from 1 reviews (1 user reviews); Thin evidence: 1 review. 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 Containment Search out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Containment Search's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–5.1M

best case 11.5M (Outlast)

Games like Containment Search

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–5.1M copies

≈ $11.3M–$56.2M after Steam's cut

from ~85k 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: Outlast at ≈ 8.7M–14.2M copies, ≈ $36.0M–$96.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 24k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 45k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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