How much revenue did The Last of Us™ Part I make?

$44.3M–$119.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Last of Us™ Part I sell?

Q: How many copies did The Last of Us™ Part I sell?

2.7M to 4.4M copies, based on its 108k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.7M–4.4M; $44.3M–$119.2M after Steam's cut $80.6M–$183.3M before the cut; from 108k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Last of Us™ Part I out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Last of Us™ Part I's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.7M–6.8M

best case 31.7M (Dying Light)

Games like The Last of Us™ Part I

The middle of these games

≈ 2.7M–6.8M copies

≈ $22.9M–$112.1M after Steam's cut

from ~67k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Dying Light at ≈ 24.2M–39.2M copies, ≈ $166.0M–$446.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 332 to 72k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (5 of 8) and Zombies (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Survival Horror, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 to 2022, and none of them 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).

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