How much revenue did The Escapists make?

$5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Escapists sell?

Q: How many copies did The Escapists sell?

791k to 1.3M copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 791k–1.3M; $5.4M–$14.6M after Steam's cut $9.9M–$22.5M before Steam's cut; from 16k 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 The Escapists and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Escapists's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–1.4M

best case 9.9M (RimWorld)

Games like The Escapists

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–1.4M copies

≈ $5.5M–$11.8M after Steam's cut

from ~32k 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.

Best case: RimWorld at ≈ 7.6M–12.3M copies, ≈ $72.7M–$195.4M 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 19k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (6 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Survival, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Survival + Base-Building; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, 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 43 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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