How much revenue did Emily Wants To Play make?

$156k–$418k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Emily Wants To Play sell?

Q: How many copies did Emily Wants To Play sell?

113k to 184k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 113k–184k; $156k–$418k after Steam's cut $283k–$643k before the cut; from 2k 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 Emily Wants To Play out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Emily Wants To Play's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–5.1M

best case 5.3M (Escape the Backrooms)

Games like Emily Wants To Play

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–5.1M copies

≈ $7.6M–$59.8M after Steam's cut

from ~88k 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: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.0M–6.6M copies, ≈ $11.1M–$29.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 15k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 392 to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Survival Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2025, and 2 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 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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