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How many copies did Underground Keeper sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 2k–4k
$3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$13k before the cut
from 56 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 Underground Keeper out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Underground Keeper's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–265k
best case 577k (Shadows of Doubt)
Games like Underground Keeper

The middle of these games

≈ 30k–265k copies

≈ $69k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Shadows of Doubt at ≈ 440k–715k copies, ≈ $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 479 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 135 to 13k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and Stealth (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Detective + Immersive Sim, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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 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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