How much revenue did Quarantineer make?

$22k–$58k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Quarantineer sell?

Q: How many copies did Quarantineer sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 319 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $22k–$58k after Steam's cut $40k–$90k before Steam's cut; from 319 reviews (Mostly Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30k–526k

best case 13.9M (R.E.P.O.)

Games like Quarantineer

A typical game among these

≈ 30k–526k copies

≈ $232k–$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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Open World (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: R.E.P.O. at ≈ 10.6M–17.2M copies, ≈ $29.1M–$78.2M 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 788 reviews in their first month; the range was 105 to 67k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (3 of 8) and Survival (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Comedy, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Comedy + Physics + Horror; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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R.E.P.O. 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10.6M–17.2M 223x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut $52.9M–$120.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	427k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
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