How much revenue did Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs make?

$4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs sell?

Q: How many copies did Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs sell?

765k to 1.2M copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 765k–1.2M; $4.2M–$11.3M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.4M before the cut; from 12k reviews (Mixed)

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 Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.9M–7.0M

best case 12.1M (DOOM)

Games like Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

The middle of these games

≈ 3.9M–7.0M copies

≈ $40.0M–$54.8M after Steam's cut

from ~99k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: DOOM at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $50.6M–$136.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (4 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Gore, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry FPS + Shooter + Great Soundtrack; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2017. 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 43 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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