How much revenue did No Escape from Madness make?

$23k–$61k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did No Escape from Madness sell?

Q: How many copies did No Escape from Madness sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 277 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $23k–$61k after Steam's cut $41k–$94k before Steam's cut; from 277 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 No Escape from Madness and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including No Escape from Madness's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15.3M–22.5M

best case 35.2M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like No Escape from Madness

A typical game among these

≈ 15.3M–22.5M copies

≈ $199.0M–$215.7M after Steam's cut

from ~526k 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: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.8M–43.5M copies, ≈ $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 23k reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 558k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (7 of 8) and Open World (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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