How much revenue did Sun Down Survivors make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sun Down Survivors sell?

Q: How many copies did Sun Down Survivors sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 199 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before Steam's cut; from 199 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 Sun Down Survivors and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sun Down Survivors's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 253k–590k

best case 885k (Children of Morta)

Games like Sun Down Survivors

A typical game among these

≈ 253k–590k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Children of Morta at ≈ 674k–1.1M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 761 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Hack and Slash, priced around $22.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 36 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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