How much revenue did Look Outside make?

$984k–$2.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Look Outside sell?

Q: How many copies did Look Outside sell?

358k to 582k copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 358k–582k; $984k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before the cut; from 14k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Look Outside out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Look Outside's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–6k

best case 320k (WORLD OF HORROR)

Games like Look Outside

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–6k copies

≈ $11k–$15k after Steam's cut

from ~115 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: WORLD OF HORROR at ≈ 244k–397k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 33 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5 to 7k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (5 of 8) and Survival Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Lovecraftian, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Lovecraftian + Psychological Horror + Point & Click; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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WORLD OF HORROR 2023	Est. copies ≈ 244k–397k 86x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before the cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	HorrorLovecraftian
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