How much revenue did Cherophobia make?

$999–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cherophobia sell?

Q: How many copies did Cherophobia sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 49 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $999–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 49 reviews (Mostly 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 Cherophobia out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cherophobia's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 361k–1.2M

best case 1.1M (Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk)

Games like Cherophobia

The middle of these games

≈ 361k–1.2M copies

≈ $882k–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk at ≈ 850k–1.4M copies, ≈ $348k–$936k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 165 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Psychological Horror (5 of 8) and Short (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $1.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2022, 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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