How much revenue did The Day Before make?

The Day Before is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did The Day Before sell?

Q: How many copies did The Day Before sell?

575k to 934k copies, based on its 23k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 575k–934k; from 23k reviews (Overwhelmingly Negative)

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 The Day Before and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Day Before's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 43k–81k

best case 37.9M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like The Day Before

A typical game among these

≈ 43k–81k copies

≈ $457k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Co-op (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.9M–46.9M copies, ≈ $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 497 to 251k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $20.
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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Unturned 2017	Est. copies ≈ 19.4M–31.6M 320x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	565k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlaySurvival
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 31.0M–50.3M 577x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.5M–$114.3M after Steam's cut $77.3M–$175.9M before Steam's cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Left 4 Dead 2 2009	Est. copies ≈ 67.0M–108.9M 600x vs typical SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $184.1M–$495.0M after Steam's cut $334.7M–$761.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	1.1M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ZombiesCo-op
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Extraction 2023	Est. copies ≈ 79k–128k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $869k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	3k reviews Mixed	FPSAction
HELLDIVERS™ 2 2024	Est. copies ≈ 28.9M–46.9M 659x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut $577.5M–$1313.8M before Steam's cut	$39.99	1.2M reviews Mostly Positive	Online Co-OpPvE
Expedition Agartha 2023	Est. copies ≈ 44k–71k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2k reviews Mixed	Extraction ShooterLoot
Hunt: Showdown 1896 2019	Est. copies ≈ 8.0M–13.1M 158x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $66.3M–$178.3M after Steam's cut $120.6M–$274.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	279k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldExtraction Shooter
C.A.S.T. (CHERNOZEM ANOMALY STRIKE TEAM) 2025	Est. copies ≈ 21k–34k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $41k–$109k after Steam's cut $74k–$168k before Steam's cut	$6.99	850 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessAction