How much revenue did Descent of the Hunted make?

$735–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Descent of the Hunted sell?

Q: How many copies did Descent of the Hunted sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $735–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 18 reviews (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 Descent of the Hunted out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Descent of the Hunted's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 370k–4.8M

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Descent of the Hunted

The middle of these games

≈ 370k–4.8M copies

≈ $1.9M–$5.5M after Steam's cut

from ~36k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (6 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Visual Novel.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 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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