How much revenue did MonkeyPox: The Plague make?

$28–$73 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did MonkeyPox: The Plague sell?

Q: How many copies did MonkeyPox: The Plague sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $28–$73 after Steam's cut $50–$113 before Steam's cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Only 2 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.4M–6.6M

best case 9.9M (NARAKA: BLADEPOINT)

Games like MonkeyPox: The Plague

A typical game among these

≈ 2.4M–6.6M copies

≈ $23.9M–$60.0M after Steam's cut

from ~79k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Battle Royale (3 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: NARAKA: BLADEPOINT at ≈ 7.5M–12.2M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 48k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Battle Royale (3 of 8) and Fighting (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + Martial Arts.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2024, and 1 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 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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NARAKA: BLADEPOINT 2021	Est. copies ≈ 7.5M–12.2M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	303k reviews Mostly Positive	Battle RoyaleMultiplayer
Ghostrunner 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $13.7M–$36.8M after Steam's cut $24.9M–$56.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	67k reviews Very Positive	ActionCyberpunk
Block Arena 2020	Est. copies ≈ 992–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	40 reviews Positive	MultiplayerPvP
Party Animals 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $10.8M–$29.1M after Steam's cut $19.7M–$44.8M before Steam's cut	$19.99	79k reviews Mostly Positive	MultiplayerFunny
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.9M–$66.8M after Steam's cut $45.2M–$102.8M before Steam's cut	$49.99	73k reviews Very Positive	AnimeAction
Deadly Kingdom 2019	Est. copies ≈ 58–94 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	2 reviews 2 user reviews	ActionIndie
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5.1M–8.2M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $55.6M–$149.5M after Steam's cut $101.1M–$230.0M before Steam's cut	$39.99	176k reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureSouls-like
River City Melee : Battle Royal Special 2017	Est. copies ≈ 5k–7k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$102k before Steam's cut	$19.99	131 reviews Mixed	ActionSports