How much revenue did Content Warning make?

$8.9M–$23.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Content Warning sell?

Q: How many copies did Content Warning sell?

4.0M to 6.6M copies, based on its 163k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.0M–6.6M; $8.9M–$23.8M after Steam's cut $16.1M–$36.7M before the cut; from 163k reviews (Very 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 Content Warning out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Content Warning's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 16.2M–33.1M

best case 87.5M (Left 4 Dead 2)

Games like Content Warning

The middle of these games

≈ 16.2M–33.1M copies

≈ $167.2M–$343.7M after Steam's cut

from ~596k 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: Left 4 Dead 2 at ≈ 66.7M–108.4M copies, ≈ $183.2M–$492.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 40k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 35k to 40k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (5 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Co-op, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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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