How much revenue did Desecration make?

$81–$220 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Desecration sell?

Q: How many copies did Desecration sell?

74 to 121 copies, based on its 3 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 74–121; $81–$220 after Steam's cut $148–$338 before the cut; from 3 reviews (3 user reviews); Thin evidence: 3 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Desecration out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Desecration's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9k–23k

best case 205k (Scanner Sombre)

Games like Desecration

The middle of these games

≈ 9k–23k copies

≈ $13k–$33k after Steam's cut

from ~319 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: Scanner Sombre at ≈ 156k–254k copies, ≈ $301k–$809k 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 35 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 24 to 100.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Exploration + Horror, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry Walking Simulator + First-Person + VR; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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