How much revenue did Serum: Toxic Survival make?

$54k–$145k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Serum: Toxic Survival sell?

Q: How many copies did Serum: Toxic Survival sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 317 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $54k–$145k after Steam's cut $98k–$223k before Steam's cut; from 317 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 20k–51k

best case 385k (魔女的夜宴)

Games like Serum: Toxic Survival

A typical game among these

≈ 20k–51k copies

≈ $47k–$131k after Steam's cut

from ~785 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 魔女的夜宴 at ≈ 293k–477k copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 231 reviews in their first month; the range was 83 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sexual Content + FPS, priced around $35.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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