How much revenue did Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? make?

An estimated 160k to 431k net after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? sell?

Q: How many copies did Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? sell?

An estimated 39k to 63k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 39k–63k; $160k–$431k net $291k–$663k gross; from 2k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 581k–662k

best case 4.8M (Escape the Backrooms)

The Puzzle lane

A solid, mid-sized genre: most sell around 589k copies, with a few that break out far above.

A typical game

≈ 589k copies

≈ $2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~18k reviews

Best case

≈ 4.8M copies

Escape the Backrooms · ≈ $18.6M after Steam's cut

from 153k reviews

A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

5 of your 8 games sit in the typical range; 3 are breakout hits far above it.

Copies and revenue are rough lifetime estimates from the review count; typical figures are medians per column, so they can come from different games.

The lane you'd be entering

Winners here lead with Free to Play + Co-op, priced around $7.
The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, a lane with a long track record.
A typical game here lands in Diamond ($1M+ before Steam's cut, est.). Tiers: Chris Zukowski's benchmark tiers.

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