How much revenue did I Am Alive make?

I Am Alive is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did I Am Alive sell?

Q: How many copies did I Am Alive sell?

182k to 295k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 182k–295k; from 3k 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 I Am Alive and predicted how it would do from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including I Am Alive's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–3.8M

best case 27.5M (Fallout 4)

Games like I Am Alive

A typical game among these

≈ 1.9M–3.8M copies

≈ $28.7M–$55.5M after Steam's cut

from ~80k reviews

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

All 7 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Fallout 4 at ≈ 21.0M–34.1M copies, ≈ $115.2M–$309.7M 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 18k reviews in their first month; the range was 7k to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Post-apocalyptic (7 of 7) and Open World (5 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Exploration + RPG + Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 2 of the 7 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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Fallout 4 2015	Est. copies ≈ 21.0M–34.1M 5.3x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut $209.4M–$476.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	429k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldPost-apocalyptic
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