How much revenue did They're Alive! make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did They're Alive! sell?

Q: How many copies did They're Alive! sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 80 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut; from 80 reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left They're Alive! out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including They're Alive!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 32.4M–105.5M

best case 816.1M (Counter-Strike 2)

Games like They're Alive!

The middle of these games

≈ 32.4M–105.5M copies

≈ $246.6M–$307.9M after Steam's cut

from ~1.1M reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Counter-Strike 2 at ≈ 621.8M–1010.5M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (8 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2022, 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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