How much revenue did Slitterhead make?

$411k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Slitterhead sell?

Q: How many copies did Slitterhead sell?

30k to 49k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–49k; $411k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $748k–$1.7M before the cut; from 1k 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 Slitterhead out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Slitterhead's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5k–52k

best case 133k (Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster)

Games like Slitterhead

The middle of these games

≈ 5k–52k copies

≈ $26k–$544k after Steam's cut

from ~1k 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: Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster at ≈ 101k–165k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 302 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Action-Adventure (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Action-Adventure, priced around $50.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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