How much revenue did Vaccine Rebirth make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vaccine Rebirth sell?

Q: How many copies did Vaccine Rebirth sell?

843 to 1k copies, based on its 34 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 843–1k; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 34 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 Vaccine Rebirth and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vaccine Rebirth's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 334k–427k

best case 9.4M (Don't Starve)

Games like Vaccine Rebirth

A typical game among these

≈ 334k–427k copies

≈ $786k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Survival (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Don't Starve at ≈ 7.2M–11.7M copies, ≈ $19.7M–$53.0M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 332 to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (4 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Crafting + Adventure + Perma Death; a typical game here doesn't.
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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Baldi's Basics Plus 2020	Est. copies ≈ 291k–473k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $800k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	12k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Rogue-like Stealth
Terminus: Zombie Survivors 2024	Est. copies ≈ 112k–182k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $615k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	5k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
WORLD OF HORROR 2023	Est. copies ≈ 245k–397k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	HorrorLovecraftian
Don't Starve 2013	Est. copies ≈ 7.2M–11.7M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $19.7M–$53.0M after Steam's cut $35.8M–$81.5M before Steam's cut	$9.99	114k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
Receiver 2013	Est. copies ≈ 265k–430k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $363k–$977k after Steam's cut $661k–$1.5M before Steam's cut	$4.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	Simulation FPS
Steam Link 2015	Est. copies ≈ 360k–584k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Mostly Positive	Steam MachineSoftware
Darkwood 2017	Est. copies ≈ 861k–1.4M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.7M–$12.7M after Steam's cut $8.6M–$19.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	25k reviews Very Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Your Mother 2025	Est. copies ≈ 265k–431k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $72k–$194k after Steam's cut $131k–$298k before Steam's cut	$0.99	11k reviews Very Positive	AnimeFemale Protagonist