How much revenue did ESCAPELAND make?

$306–$824 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ESCAPELAND sell?

Q: How many copies did ESCAPELAND sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $306–$824 after Steam's cut $556–$1k before Steam's cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Only 9 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 ESCAPELAND and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ESCAPELAND's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.3M–9.7M

best case 12.4M (Deep Rock Galactic)

Games like ESCAPELAND

A typical game among these

≈ 5.3M–9.7M copies

≈ $64.0M–$104.1M after Steam's cut

from ~139k 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 Co-op (3 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: Deep Rock Galactic at ≈ 9.4M–15.3M copies, ≈ $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the range was 8k to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (3 of 8) and Dark Fantasy (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Co-op, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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Killing Floor 2 2016	Est. copies ≈ 5.4M–8.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $44.4M–$119.4M after Steam's cut $80.8M–$183.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	129k reviews Very Positive	ZombiesMultiplayer
Darkest Dungeon® 2016	Est. copies ≈ 6.8M–11.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $46.5M–$125.1M after Steam's cut $84.6M–$192.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	163k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based CombatDark Fantasy
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide 2022	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $38.0M–$102.2M after Steam's cut $69.1M–$157.2M before Steam's cut	$39.99	139k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorTeam-Based
Deep Rock Galactic 2020	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.3M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $77.8M–$209.2M after Steam's cut $141.5M–$321.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	380k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DwarfCo-op
Hunt: Showdown 1896 2019	Est. copies ≈ 8.0M–13.1M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $66.3M–$178.3M after Steam's cut $120.6M–$274.4M before Steam's cut	$29.99	279k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldExtraction Shooter
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The Outlast Trials 2024	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $30.7M–$82.5M after Steam's cut $55.8M–$126.9M before Steam's cut	$39.99	112k reviews Very Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
Grim Dawn 2016	Est. copies ≈ 4.6M–7.4M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $31.4M–$84.5M after Steam's cut $57.2M–$130.0M before Steam's cut	$24.99	110k reviews Very Positive	Action RPGHack and Slash