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How many copies did PILGRIM sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 95k–154k
$208k–$560k after Steam's cut $379k–$862k before the cut
from 4k reviews (Mixed)

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 PILGRIM out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including PILGRIM's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 117k–5.3M
best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)
Games like PILGRIM

The middle of these games

≈ 117k–5.3M copies

≈ $528k–$18.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

All 7 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 114k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on First-Person (7 of 7) and Horror (7 of 7).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $10.
The era
6 of your 7 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.
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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