How much revenue did Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead make?

$74k–$200k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead sell?

Q: How many copies did Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 546 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $74k–$200k after Steam's cut $135k–$308k before the cut; from 546 reviews (Very 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 Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–78k

best case 128.9M (Terraria)

Games like Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

The middle of these games

≈ 21k–78k copies

≈ $60k–$521k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Terraria at ≈ 98.2M–159.6M copies, ≈ $269.8M–$725.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 86 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 2k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (6 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Crafting + Open World Survival Craft; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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Rust 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42.5M–69.0M 1019x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $467.3M–$1256.3M after Steam's cut $849.6M–$1932.8M before the cut	$39.99	1.4M reviews Very Positive	SurvivalCrafting
Terraria 2011	Est. copies ≈ 98.2M–159.6M 1133x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $269.8M–$725.3M after Steam's cut $490.5M–$1115.8M before the cut	$9.99	1.6M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
Wayward 2016	Est. copies ≈ 57k–92k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $125k–$336k after Steam's cut $227k–$517k before the cut	$7.99	1k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
UnReal World 2016	Est. copies ≈ 57k–93k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $228k–$614k after Steam's cut $415k–$944k before the cut	$14.50	1k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldSurvival
Rogue Harvest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut	$2.99	69 reviews Mixed	Action RoguelikeRogue-lite
ZED ZONE 2023	Est. copies ≈ 91k–148k 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $300k–$808k after Steam's cut $546k–$1.2M before the cut	$11.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessSurvival
Soulash 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 60k–98k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $314k–$844k after Steam's cut $571k–$1.3M before the cut	$18.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessSandbox
Evo Born 2024	Est. copies ≈ 74–121 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $20–$55 after Steam's cut $37–$84 before the cut	$0.99	3 reviews 3 user reviews	AdventureCard Battler