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How many copies did Now Open! Horror House sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 372–605
$204–$548 after Steam's cut $370–$843 before the cut
from 15 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Now Open! Horror House out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Now Open! Horror House's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 271k–1.3M
best case 2.3M (Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation)
Games like Now Open! Horror House

The middle of these games

≈ 271k–1.3M copies

≈ $1.1M–$3.1M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $11.8M–$31.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 449 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Horror (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Management + Psychological Horror, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2014 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 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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