How much revenue did Time Survivors make?

$10k–$26k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Time Survivors sell?

Q: How many copies did Time Survivors sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 283 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $10k–$26k after Steam's cut $18k–$40k before Steam's cut; from 283 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 Time Survivors and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Time Survivors's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 995k–3.7M

best case 8.7M (Vampire Survivors)

Games like Time Survivors

A typical game among these

≈ 995k–3.7M copies

≈ $2.7M–$10.9M after Steam's cut

from ~41k 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: Vampire Survivors at ≈ 6.6M–10.7M copies, ≈ $9.1M–$24.4M 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 21k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (7 of 8) and Bullet Hell (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action Roguelike + Bullet Hell, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Vampire + 2D + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 1 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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Enter the Gungeon 2016	Est. copies ≈ 3.7M–6.1M 2.2x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $15.4M–$41.5M after Steam's cut $28.1M–$63.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	90k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Bullet HellAction Roguelike
Vampire Survivors 2022	Est. copies ≈ 6.6M–10.7M 6.5x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $9.1M–$24.4M after Steam's cut $16.5M–$37.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	267k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Action RoguelikeBullet Hell
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