How much revenue did Survival Nation make?

$52k–$140k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Survival Nation sell?

Q: How many copies did Survival Nation sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 254 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $52k–$140k after Steam's cut $94k–$215k before the cut; from 254 reviews (Mostly 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 Survival Nation out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Survival Nation's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.5M–17.0M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like Survival Nation

The middle of these games

≈ 5.5M–17.0M copies

≈ $78.3M–$192.7M after Steam's cut

from ~272k 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: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 27k to 68k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (6 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, 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 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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