How much revenue did A Way Out make?

$21.1M–$56.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Way Out sell?

Q: How many copies did A Way Out sell?

2.6M to 4.2M copies, based on its 103k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.6M–4.2M; $21.1M–$56.7M after Steam's cut $38.4M–$87.3M before Steam's cut; from 103k 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 A Way Out and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Way Out's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.8M–6.7M

best case 37.2M (Rocket League®)

Games like A Way Out

A typical game among these

≈ 4.8M–6.7M copies

≈ $44.3M–$121.9M after Steam's cut

from ~126k 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: Rocket League® at ≈ 28.3M–46.0M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 63k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (5 of 8) and Competitive (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Football (Soccer) + Competitive.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, and 2 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 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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Stick Fight: The Game 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.3M–7.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.9M–$15.9M after Steam's cut $10.8M–$24.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	125k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerFunny
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