How much revenue did 1000 days to escape make?

$16k–$43k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did 1000 days to escape sell?

Q: How many copies did 1000 days to escape sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 406 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$66k before Steam's cut; from 406 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 1000 days to escape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including 1000 days to escape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 238k–523k

best case 519k (EVERSPACE™)

Games like 1000 days to escape

A typical game among these

≈ 238k–523k copies

≈ $1.1M–$3.8M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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: EVERSPACE™ at ≈ 395k–642k copies, ≈ $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Space (7 of 8) and Sci-fi (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Action Roguelike, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2017, 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 43 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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