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How many copies did Selene's Unbearable Night sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 4k–7k
$14k–$37k after Steam's cut $25k–$57k before the cut
from 168 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Selene's Unbearable Night out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Selene's Unbearable Night's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–2.4M
best case 8.9M (Resident Evil 4)
Games like Selene's Unbearable Night

The middle of these games

≈ 1.9M–2.4M copies

≈ $18.9M–$20.3M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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.

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

Best case: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 6.8M–11.1M copies, ≈ $74.9M–$201.3M 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 21k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 68k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and Third Person (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Third Person, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Third-Person Shooter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 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 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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