How much revenue did The Outlast Trials make?

$30.5M–$81.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Outlast Trials sell?

Q: How many copies did The Outlast Trials sell?

2.8M to 4.5M copies, based on its 112k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.8M–4.5M; $30.5M–$81.9M after Steam's cut $55.4M–$126.0M before the cut; from 112k 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 The Outlast Trials out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Outlast Trials's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29.1M–90.6M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like The Outlast Trials

The middle of these games

≈ 29.1M–90.6M copies

≈ $201.1M–$352.4M after Steam's cut

from ~996k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (5 of 8) and Survival (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2020, 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 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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