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How many copies did Red Silhouette sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 496–806
$954–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut
from 20 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 Red Silhouette out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Red Silhouette's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.2M–6.0M
best case 8.9M (Resident Evil 4)
Games like Red Silhouette

The middle of these games

≈ 3.2M–6.0M copies

≈ $40.3M–$91.1M after Steam's cut

from ~77k 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: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 6.8M–11.1M copies, ≈ $74.9M–$201.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 26k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 20k to 68k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and Survival Horror (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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