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 Steam's cut; from 254 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 Survival Nation and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Survival Nation's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.6M–17.2M

best case 27.3M (The Forest)

Games like Survival Nation

A typical game among these

≈ 5.6M–17.2M copies

≈ $78.7M–$193.3M after Steam's cut

from ~275k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (6 of 8) and First-Person (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games 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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