How much revenue did Metro Awakening make?

$737k–$2.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Metro Awakening sell?

Q: How many copies did Metro Awakening sell?

89k to 145k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 89k–145k; $737k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Mostly 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 Metro Awakening and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Metro Awakening's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 370k–690k

best case 5.8M (Resident Evil 7 Biohazard)

Games like Metro Awakening

A typical game among these

≈ 370k–690k copies

≈ $3.3M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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 VR (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: Resident Evil 7 Biohazard at ≈ 4.4M–7.1M copies, ≈ $24.1M–$64.9M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share VR (4 of 8) and Survival (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry First-Person + Gore + Zombies; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 79 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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EVERSPACE™ 2017	Est. copies ≈ 395k–642k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.2M–$5.8M after Steam's cut $3.9M–$9.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	11k reviews Mostly Positive	SpaceAction Roguelike
Amazing Frog? 2014	Est. copies ≈ 656k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.6M–$9.7M after Steam's cut $6.6M–$14.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	12k reviews Very Positive	Early Access4 Player Local
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M 11x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $24.1M–$64.9M after Steam's cut $43.9M–$99.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	128k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Hand Simulator: Survival 2019	Est. copies ≈ 284k–461k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $233k–$627k after Steam's cut $424k–$965k before Steam's cut	$2.99	10k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalMultiplayer
Ghosts of Tabor 2023	Est. copies ≈ 260k–423k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.8M–$4.8M after Steam's cut $3.3M–$7.4M before Steam's cut	$24.99	10k reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessAction
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Steam Link 2015	Est. copies ≈ 360k–584k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Mostly Positive	Steam MachineSoftware
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