How much revenue did Scanner Sombre make?

$301k–$809k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Scanner Sombre sell?

Q: How many copies did Scanner Sombre sell?

156k to 254k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 156k–254k; $301k–$809k after Steam's cut $547k–$1.2M before the cut; from 5k 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 Scanner Sombre out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Scanner Sombre's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–3.1M

best case 5.4M (Firewatch)

Games like Scanner Sombre

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–3.1M copies

≈ $11.6M–$35.2M after Steam's cut

from ~45k 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: Firewatch at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $22.7M–$61.1M after Steam's cut.

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 2k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Walking Simulator, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 1 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 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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