Phasmophobia vs The Witness
Reviews on Steam
Phasmophobia
40.5× more reviews
Critical reception
Phasmophobia
10.1pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Phasmophobia
$20.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Phasmophobia
29.0× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Phasmophobia
4 years apart
Phasmophobia
2020 · Action
- Reviews
- 676,875
- Positive
- 95%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 50.8M
- Net rev
- $579.7M
The Witness
2016 · Adventure
- Reviews
- 16,694
- Positive
- 84%
- Launch price
- $39.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 1.8M
- Net rev
- $40.0M
Tag overlap
20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Phasmophobia, 16 only on The Witness.
Only Phasmophobia
HorrorOnline Co-OpMultiplayerPsychological HorrorCo-opSupernaturalVRInvestigationDarkDemonsDetectiveThriller3DEarly AccessActionTactical
Shared
First-PersonMysteryIndieSingleplayer
Only The Witness
PuzzleExplorationOpen WorldColorfulAtmosphericDifficultWalking SimulatorAdventureNonlinearPhilosophicalRelaxingSurrealCasualGreat SoundtrackStory RichBeautiful
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
vv1.030.5M to 71.1M
units (median: 50.8M)
≈ $347.8M to $811.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.01.1M to 2.5M
units (median: 1.8M)
≈ $24.0M to $56.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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