How much revenue did Old Future: Post-Apocalyptic Times make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Old Future: Post-Apocalyptic Times sell?

Q: How many copies did Old Future: Post-Apocalyptic Times sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 54 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 54 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 Old Future: Post-Apocalyptic Times and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Old Future: Post-Apocalyptic Times's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–4.5M

best case 18.7M (DayZ)

Games like Old Future: Post-Apocalyptic Times

A typical game among these

≈ 1.4M–4.5M copies

≈ $13.4M–$53.5M after Steam's cut

from ~54k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Looter Shooter (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: DayZ at ≈ 14.3M–23.2M copies, ≈ $196.4M–$527.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 39k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Looter Shooter (4 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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