How much revenue did Scorn make?

$5.4M–$14.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Scorn sell?

Q: How many copies did Scorn sell?

487k to 792k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 487k–792k; $5.4M–$14.4M after Steam's cut $9.7M–$22.2M before the cut; from 20k 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 Scorn out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Scorn's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–3.9M

best case 8.4M (Resident Evil 2)

Games like Scorn

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–3.9M copies

≈ $18.9M–$40.2M after Steam's cut

from ~52k 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: Resident Evil 2 at ≈ 6.4M–10.4M copies, ≈ $70.1M–$188.4M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Survival Horror (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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 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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