How much revenue did Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn make?

$226k–$607k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn sell?

Q: How many copies did Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn sell?

55k to 89k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 55k–89k; $226k–$607k after Steam's cut $410k–$934k before the cut; from 2k 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 Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–3.2M

best case 10.2M (Doki Doki Literature Club!)

Games like Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn

The middle of these games

≈ 2.7M–3.2M copies

≈ $22.9M–$23.9M after Steam's cut

from ~67k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Doki Doki Literature Club! at ≈ 7.8M–12.7M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Gore (7 of 8) and Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2021, 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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