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How many copies did Unholy Heights sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 104k–169k
$114k–$307k after Steam's cut $208k–$472k before the cut
from 2k reviews (Very 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 Unholy Heights out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unholy Heights's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.4M–15.9M
best case 27.2M (The Forest)
Games like Unholy Heights

The middle of these games

≈ 9.4M–15.9M copies

≈ $117.7M–$221.5M after Steam's cut

from ~292k 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: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M 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 183k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 86k to 327k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Base-Building (5 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Horror + Adventure + Survival Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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