How much revenue did Thorne - Death Merchants make?

$35k–$93k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Thorne - Death Merchants sell?

Q: How many copies did Thorne - Death Merchants sell?

13k to 20k copies, based on its 302 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–20k; $35k–$93k after Steam's cut $63k–$143k before the cut; from 302 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 Thorne - Death Merchants out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Thorne - Death Merchants's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 207k–425k

best case 2.9M (OMORI)

Games like Thorne - Death Merchants

The middle of these games

≈ 207k–425k copies

≈ $512k–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: OMORI at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $12.0M–$32.4M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 512 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on RPGMaker (5 of 8) and Story Rich (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Psychological Horror + Story Rich, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Multiple Endings + Psychological Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 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 79 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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