How much revenue did Alien Hallway make?

$28k–$76k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Alien Hallway sell?

Q: How many copies did Alien Hallway sell?

21k to 33k copies, based on its 325 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–33k; $28k–$76k after Steam's cut $51k–$117k before the cut; from 325 reviews (Mixed)

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 Alien Hallway out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Alien Hallway's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 525–475k

best case 3.7M (Ring of Elysium)

Games like Alien Hallway

The middle of these games

≈ 525–475k copies

≈ $4k–$55k after Steam's cut

from ~281 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is MOBA (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Ring of Elysium at ≈ 2.9M–4.6M copies.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 283 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on MOBA (4 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, 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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