How much revenue did Enshrouded make?

$29.0M–$77.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Enshrouded sell?

Q: How many copies did Enshrouded sell?

2.6M to 4.3M copies, based on its 106k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.6M–4.3M; $29.0M–$77.9M after Steam's cut $52.7M–$119.8M before Steam's cut; from 106k 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 Enshrouded and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Enshrouded's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.4M–13.3M

best case 35.2M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like Enshrouded

A typical game among these

≈ 5.4M–13.3M copies

≈ $60.9M–$146.9M after Steam's cut

from ~285k 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: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.8M–43.5M copies, ≈ $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 180k reviews in their first month; the range was 92k to 469k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (8 of 8) and Base-Building (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2026, and 3 of the 8 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 43 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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