How much revenue did SymbioPhobiA make?

$306–$824 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SymbioPhobiA sell?

Q: How many copies did SymbioPhobiA sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $306–$824 after Steam's cut $556–$1k before the cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Thin evidence: 9 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 SymbioPhobiA out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SymbioPhobiA's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–6.6M

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like SymbioPhobiA

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–6.6M copies

≈ $12.8M–$58.4M after Steam's cut

from ~67k 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: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 21k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 418 to 178k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Survival Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $10.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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