How much revenue did Life Eater make?

$39k–$104k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Life Eater sell?

Q: How many copies did Life Eater sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 377 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $39k–$104k after Steam's cut $70k–$159k before the cut; from 377 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 Life Eater out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Life Eater's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–63k

best case 201k (Killer Frequency)

Games like Life Eater

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–63k copies

≈ $21k–$364k after Steam's cut

from ~359 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: Killer Frequency at ≈ 153k–249k copies, ≈ $1.1M–$2.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 95 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 13 to 741.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Interactive Fiction (8 of 8) and Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Puzzle, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, 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 38 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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