How much revenue did Niktophobia make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Niktophobia sell?

Q: How many copies did Niktophobia sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 73 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $7k–$16k before the cut; from 73 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 Niktophobia out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Niktophobia's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7k–52k

best case 4.9M (Alien: Isolation)

Games like Niktophobia

The middle of these games

≈ 7k–52k copies

≈ $35k–$214k after Steam's cut

from ~214 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: Alien: Isolation at ≈ 3.7M–6.1M copies, ≈ $41.0M–$110.1M 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 170 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 41 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and VR (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Aliens + Atmospheric + Stealth; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, and none of them 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 70 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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