How much revenue did Stygian: Outer Gods make?

$117k–$315k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Stygian: Outer Gods sell?

Q: How many copies did Stygian: Outer Gods sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 687 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $117k–$315k after Steam's cut $213k–$484k before the cut; from 687 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 Stygian: Outer Gods out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Stygian: Outer Gods's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–72k

best case 553k (Call of Cthulhu®)

Games like Stygian: Outer Gods

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–72k copies

≈ $56k–$325k after Steam's cut

from ~456 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Call of Cthulhu® at ≈ 421k–685k copies, ≈ $2.3M–$6.2M 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 112 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 36 to 185.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Lovecraftian (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Lovecraftian + Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Detective + Story Rich + Psychological Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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 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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