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

$170k–$457k 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?

41k to 67k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 41k–67k; $170k–$457k after Steam's cut $309k–$703k before the cut; 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) 596k–668k

best case 5.3M (Escape the Backrooms)

Games like Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?

The middle of these games

≈ 596k–668k copies

≈ $2.1M–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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.

Best case: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.0M–6.6M copies, ≈ $11.1M–$29.8M 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 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Escape Room (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Escape Room, priced around $7.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, 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 70 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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