How much revenue did Eldritch make?

$579k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Eldritch sell?

Q: How many copies did Eldritch sell?

140k to 228k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 140k–228k; $579k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.4M 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 Eldritch out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Eldritch's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 34k–258k

best case 546k (Magicraft)

Games like Eldritch

The middle of these games

≈ 34k–258k copies

≈ $134k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Magicraft at ≈ 416k–676k copies, ≈ $1.8M–$4.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Lovecraftian (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Rogue-lite, priced around $16.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, 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 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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