How much revenue did Plague Inc: Evolved make?

$11.3M–$30.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Plague Inc: Evolved sell?

Q: How many copies did Plague Inc: Evolved sell?

2.7M to 4.5M copies, based on its 66k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.7M–4.5M; $11.3M–$30.4M after Steam's cut $20.6M–$46.8M before Steam's cut; from 66k reviews (Very 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 Plague Inc: Evolved and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Plague Inc: Evolved's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 111k–642k

best case 742k (60 Seconds! Reatomized)

Games like Plague Inc: Evolved

A typical game among these

≈ 111k–642k copies

≈ $560k–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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 Outbreak Sim (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: 60 Seconds! Reatomized at ≈ 566k–919k copies, ≈ $1.6M–$4.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Outbreak Sim (4 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Choose Your Own Adventure + Dark Humor, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 61 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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