How much revenue did Scourge of the village make?

$16k–$42k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Scourge of the village sell?

Q: How many copies did Scourge of the village sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 287 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $28k–$65k before the cut; from 287 reviews (Mostly 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 Scourge of the village out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Scourge of the village's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 85k–91k

best case 373k (The Exit 8)

Games like Scourge of the village

The middle of these games

≈ 85k–91k copies

≈ $134k–$330k 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.

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: The Exit 8 at ≈ 284k–462k copies, ≈ $312k–$839k 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 163 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Psychological Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $3. The breakout hits carry Choices Matter + Visual Novel; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, 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 43 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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