How much revenue did Brave survivors make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Brave survivors sell?

Q: How many copies did Brave survivors sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 57 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$5k before Steam's cut; from 57 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 Brave survivors and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Brave survivors's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 814–83k

best case 1.6M (Rogue Legacy)

Games like Brave survivors

A typical game among these

≈ 814–83k copies

≈ $3k–$573k after Steam's cut

from ~171 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rogue Legacy at ≈ 1.2M–1.9M copies, ≈ $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 15 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 503.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Roguevania (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguevania + Platformer, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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The End Grows 2025	Est. copies ≈ 744–1k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before Steam's cut	$9.99	30 reviews Positive	Early AccessRoguevania
Rogue Legacy 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 110x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $4.9M–$13.2M after Steam's cut $8.9M–$20.3M before Steam's cut	$14.99	19k reviews Very Positive	RoguevaniaPlatformer
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