How much revenue did Apocalypse Love Shelter make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Apocalypse Love Shelter sell?

Q: How many copies did Apocalypse Love Shelter sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 76 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before Steam's cut; from 76 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 Apocalypse Love Shelter and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Apocalypse Love Shelter's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 115k–4.8M

best case 40.1M (Project Zomboid)

Games like Apocalypse Love Shelter

A typical game among these

≈ 115k–4.8M copies

≈ $379k–$85.2M after Steam's cut

from ~100k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Project Zomboid at ≈ 30.5M–49.6M copies, ≈ $209.9M–$564.4M after Steam's cut.

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 57 to 88k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Post-apocalyptic (8 of 8) and Survival (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 3 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 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Project Zomboid 2013	Est. copies ≈ 30.5M–49.6M 4.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $209.9M–$564.4M after Steam's cut $381.6M–$868.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	483k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
Frostpunk 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.8M after Steam's cut $62.8M–$142.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	138k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Survival
Days Gone 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $32.0M–$86.0M after Steam's cut $58.2M–$132.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	117k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldZombies
ATOM RPG Trudograd 2021	Est. copies ≈ 110k–179k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $334k–$897k after Steam's cut $607k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$10.99	4k reviews Very Positive	CRPGOpen World
Fallout Shelter 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	83k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayBase-Building
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3.5M–5.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $57.8M–$155.4M after Steam's cut $105.1M–$239.2M before Steam's cut	$59.99	141k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldFPS
City 20 2024	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $27k–$74k after Steam's cut $50k–$113k before Steam's cut	$19.99	201 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessOpen World
KeepUp Survival 2024	Est. copies ≈ 19k–30k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $77k–$207k after Steam's cut $140k–$318k before Steam's cut	$14.99	753 reviews Mixed	Open World Survival CraftBase-Building