How much revenue did Venge make?

$14k–$38k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Venge sell?

Q: How many copies did Venge sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 413 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; $14k–$38k after Steam's cut $26k–$58k before the cut; from 413 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Venge out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Venge's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.4M–15.5M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like Venge

The middle of these games

≈ 5.4M–15.5M copies

≈ $35.8M–$134.3M after Steam's cut

from ~242k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 55k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 35k to 178k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Survival Horror (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, and 3 of your 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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Lethal Company 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12.7M–20.6M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.8M–$93.6M after Steam's cut $63.3M–$143.9M before the cut	$9.99	511k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Online Co-OpHorror
Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.5M–18.8M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.2M–$256.0M after Steam's cut $173.1M–$393.9M before the cut	$29.99	380k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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Sons Of The Forest 2024	Est. copies ≈ 7.9M–12.9M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $65.4M–$175.8M after Steam's cut $118.9M–$270.4M before the cut	$29.99	320k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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Resident Evil 7 Biohazard 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.9M–$64.4M after Steam's cut $43.5M–$99.0M before the cut	$19.99	127k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Survival Horror
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