How much revenue did The Highrise make?

$15k–$41k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Highrise sell?

Q: How many copies did The Highrise sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 281 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $15k–$41k after Steam's cut $28k–$63k before the cut; from 281 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.4M–30.3M

best case 55.8M (Rust)

Games like The Highrise

The middle of these games

≈ 5.4M–30.3M copies

≈ $89.7M–$296.1M after Steam's cut

from ~350k 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: Rust at ≈ 42.5M–69.0M copies, ≈ $467.3M–$1256.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (8 of 8) and Survival (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 1 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 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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The Long Dark 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.3M–6.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.4M–$62.9M after Steam's cut $42.5M–$96.8M before the cut	$19.99	124k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
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Project Zomboid 2013	Est. copies ≈ 30.2M–49.0M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $207.3M–$557.3M after Steam's cut $376.9M–$857.4M before the cut	$24.99	477k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
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Rust 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42.5M–69.0M 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $467.3M–$1256.3M after Steam's cut $849.6M–$1932.8M before the cut	$39.99	1.4M reviews Very Positive	SurvivalCrafting