How much revenue did Wanna Survive make?

$29k–$78k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Wanna Survive sell?

Q: How many copies did Wanna Survive sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 304 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; $29k–$78k after Steam's cut $52k–$119k before Steam's cut; from 304 reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Wanna Survive and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Wanna Survive's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–5.7M

best case 6.0M (XCOM® 2)

Games like Wanna Survive

A typical game among these

≈ 1.5M–5.7M copies

≈ $19.4M–$55.8M after Steam's cut

from ~52k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: XCOM® 2 at ≈ 4.6M–7.4M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 975 to 9k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tactical (5 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Isometric + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 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 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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