How much revenue did The Great Fear make?

The Great Fear is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did The Great Fear sell?

Q: How many copies did The Great Fear sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; from 10 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 The Great Fear and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Great Fear's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 57k–134k

best case 1.9M (DREDGE)

Games like The Great Fear

A typical game among these

≈ 57k–134k copies

≈ $274k–$362k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Action RPG (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: DREDGE at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $15.6M–$41.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 529 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Action RPG (3 of 8) and Zombies (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Zombies, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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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UNDYING - "KINGDOM" 2023	Est. copies ≈ 47k–76k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $258k–$692k after Steam's cut $468k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Story RichMultiple Endings
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners 2020	Est. copies ≈ 251k–407k 4.5x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	10k reviews Very Positive	VRZombies
DREDGE 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M 26x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $15.6M–$41.9M after Steam's cut $28.4M–$64.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	57k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ExplorationFishing
Peekaboo 2019	Est. copies ≈ 94k–153k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $77k–$208k after Steam's cut $140k–$320k before Steam's cut	$2.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionMultiplayer
Book of Yog Idle RPG 2022	Est. copies ≈ 224k–363k 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	9k reviews Mixed	AdventureMassively Multiplayer
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Lumencraft 2023	Est. copies ≈ 32k–52k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $176k–$472k after Steam's cut $320k–$727k before Steam's cut	$19.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	ExplorationAction