How much revenue did Start Over make?

$39k–$104k 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 379 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $39k–$104k after Steam's cut $70k–$160k before the cut; from 379 reviews (Mixed)

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 Start Over out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Start Over's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.5M–13.0M

best case 35.1M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like Start Over

The middle of these games

≈ 7.5M–13.0M copies

≈ $86.3M–$149.0M after Steam's cut

from ~299k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.7M–43.5M copies, ≈ $110.3M–$296.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Crafting (8 of 8) and Survival (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 3 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 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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