How much revenue did Corpse Party: Book of Shadows make?

$65k–$174k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Corpse Party: Book of Shadows sell?

Q: How many copies did Corpse Party: Book of Shadows sell?

16k to 26k copies, based on its 517 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 16k–26k; $65k–$174k after Steam's cut $118k–$268k before the cut; from 517 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 Corpse Party: Book of Shadows out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Corpse Party: Book of Shadows's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.1M–10.5M

best case 50.8M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like Corpse Party: Book of Shadows

The middle of these games

≈ 7.1M–10.5M copies

≈ $79.5M–$133.6M after Steam's cut

from ~221k 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: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 38.7M–62.9M copies, ≈ $212.7M–$571.8M 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 55k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42k to 72k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Gore (7 of 8) and Horror (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Team-Based + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 52 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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