How much revenue did Unplagued make?

$270k–$725k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Unplagued sell?

Q: How many copies did Unplagued sell?

123k to 199k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 123k–199k; $270k–$725k after Steam's cut $490k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 5k reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.4M–5.5M

best case 27.3M (The Forest)

Games like Unplagued

A typical game among these

≈ 5.4M–5.5M copies

≈ $19.8M–$42.8M after Steam's cut

from ~146k 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.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M 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 61k reviews in their first month; the range was 35k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (7 of 8) and First-Person (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Survival + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 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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R.E.P.O. 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10.6M–17.2M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut $52.9M–$120.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	427k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
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Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.6M–18.8M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.5M–$256.7M after Steam's cut $173.6M–$395.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	381k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.4M–7.1M 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
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.7M 4.7x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut $207.5M–$472.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	683k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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