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How many copies did QR Escape sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 446–725
$490–$1k after Steam's cut $890–$2k before the cut
from 18 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 QR Escape out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including QR Escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 58k–87k
best case 65k (United heist)
Games like QR Escape

The middle of these games

≈ 58k–87k copies

≈ $281k–$650k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: United heist at ≈ 50k–81k copies.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 175 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 41 to 665.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and First-Person (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Mystery.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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