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Insurgency: Sandstorm vs Phasmophobia

Reviews on Steam

Phasmophobia

6.6× more reviews

Critical reception

Phasmophobia

9.7pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Phasmophobia

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Phasmophobia

7.0× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Phasmophobia

2 years apart

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Insurgency: Sandstorm

2018 · Action

New World Interactive · Focus Entertainment

Reviews
103,254
Positive
85%
Launch price
$29.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
7.2M
Net rev
$123.8M
B

Phasmophobia

2020 · Action

Kinetic Games · Kinetic Games

Reviews
676,875
Positive
95%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
50.8M
Net rev
$579.7M

Tag overlap

35% shared , 7 shared tags, 13 only on Insurgency: Sandstorm, 13 only on Phasmophobia.

Only Insurgency: Sandstorm

FPSRealisticShooterMilitaryWarGoreViolentDifficultAtmosphericSimulationOpen WorldMassively MultiplayerChoices Matter

Shared

TacticalMultiplayerActionFirst-PersonOnline Co-OpCo-opIndie

Only Phasmophobia

HorrorPsychological HorrorSupernaturalVRInvestigationDarkDemonsDetectiveMysteryThriller3DEarly AccessSingleplayer

Sales estimates

Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.

Sales estimate

vv1.0

4.3M to 10.1M

units (median: 7.2M)

≈ $74.3M to $173.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

4.3Mmedian10.1M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

30.5M to 71.1M

units (median: 50.8M)

≈ $347.8M to $811.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

30.5Mmedian71.1M

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