Iron Lung vs Phasmophobia
Reviews on Steam
Phasmophobia
62.9× more reviews
Critical reception
Phasmophobia
2.5pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Iron Lung
$12.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Phasmophobia
72.5× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Iron Lung
2 years apart
Iron Lung
2022 · Adventure
David Szymanski · David Szymanski
- Reviews
- 10,767
- Positive
- 92%
- Launch price
- $7.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 700K
- Net rev
- $3.2M
Phasmophobia
2020 · Action
- 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 Iron Lung, 13 only on Phasmophobia.
Only Iron Lung
AtmosphericSubmarineUnderwaterShortPixel GraphicsMinimalistAdventureSci-fiAbstractWalking SimulatorExplorationDystopian Surreal
Shared
HorrorPsychological HorrorIndieFirst-Person3DDarkMystery
Only Phasmophobia
Online Co-OpMultiplayerCo-opSupernaturalVRInvestigationDemonsDetectiveThrillerEarly AccessActionTacticalSingleplayer
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
vv1.0420K to 980K
units (median: 700K)
≈ $1.9M to $4.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.030.5M to 71.1M
units (median: 50.8M)
≈ $347.8M to $811.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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