How much revenue did Start Over make?

$39k–$105k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Start Over sell?

Q: How many copies did Start Over sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 382 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $39k–$105k after Steam's cut $71k–$162k before Steam's cut; from 382 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 Start Over and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Start Over's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.6M–13.1M

best case 35.2M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like Start Over

A typical game among these

≈ 7.6M–13.1M copies

≈ $86.6M–$149.6M after Steam's cut

from ~301k 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: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.8M–43.5M copies, ≈ $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 178k reviews in their first month; the range was 86k to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Crafting (8 of 8) and Survival (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2024, and 3 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 70 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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