How much revenue did DON'T SCREAM make?

$265k–$713k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did DON'T SCREAM sell?

Q: How many copies did DON'T SCREAM sell?

121k to 196k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 121k–196k; $265k–$713k after Steam's cut $483k–$1.1M before the cut; from 5k 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 DON'T SCREAM out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including DON'T SCREAM's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 192k–1.2M

best case 4.3M (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Games like DON'T SCREAM

The middle of these games

≈ 192k–1.2M copies

≈ $3.2M–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~9k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Five Nights at Freddy's at ≈ 3.3M–5.4M copies, ≈ $4.5M–$12.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2025, 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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