How much revenue did Daemonologie make?

$15k–$40k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Daemonologie sell?

Q: How many copies did Daemonologie sell?

18k to 29k copies, based on its 731 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–29k; $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$62k before the cut; from 731 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 Daemonologie out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Daemonologie's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 327k–569k

best case 655k (The Test)

Games like Daemonologie

The middle of these games

≈ 327k–569k copies

≈ $830k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~9k 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: The Test at ≈ 499k–811k copies, ≈ $273k–$734k 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 Story Rich (8 of 8) and Choices Matter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choose Your Own Adventure + Simulation, priced around $2.
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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