How much revenue did Monstrum make?

$909k–$2.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Monstrum sell?

Q: How many copies did Monstrum sell?

184k to 299k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 184k–299k; $909k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.8M before the cut; from 4k 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 Monstrum out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Monstrum's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 81k–146k

best case 195k (Sker Ritual)

Games like Monstrum

The middle of these games

≈ 81k–146k copies

≈ $412k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Sker Ritual at ≈ 149k–242k copies, ≈ $818k–$2.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 919 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (5 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Survival, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 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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