How much revenue did The Murder of H. make?

$544–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Murder of H. sell?

Q: How many copies did The Murder of H. sell?

198 to 322 copies, based on its 8 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 198–322; $544–$1k after Steam's cut $989–$2k before the cut; from 8 reviews (8 user reviews); Thin evidence: 8 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 The Murder of H. out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Murder of H.'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k

best case 15k (Curious Cases)

Games like The Murder of H.

The middle of these games

≈ 4k copies

≈ $12k–$14k after Steam's cut

from ~111 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Curious Cases at ≈ 11k–18k copies, ≈ $21k–$57k 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 55 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 36 to 82.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and VR (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Mystery + Story Rich; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 38 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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