How much revenue did Unavowed make?

$329k–$884k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Unavowed sell?

Q: How many copies did Unavowed sell?

80k to 130k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 80k–130k; $329k–$884k after Steam's cut $598k–$1.4M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Unavowed and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unavowed's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 115.4M–127.5M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Unavowed

A typical game among these

≈ 115.4M–127.5M copies

≈ $429.0M–$475.7M after Steam's cut

from ~1.6M reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Physics (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 37 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Physics (3 of 8) and Platformer (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 to 2023, 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Garry's Mod 2006	Est. copies ≈ 80.0M–130.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $219.9M–$591.3M after Steam's cut $399.8M–$909.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	1.3M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxModdable
PewDiePie: Legend of the Brofist 2015	Est. copies ≈ 82k–134k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $181k–$486k after Steam's cut $329k–$747k before Steam's cut	$7.99	2k reviews Very Positive	MemesPixel Graphics
Terraria 2011	Est. copies ≈ 98.5M–160.1M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $270.6M–$727.5M after Steam's cut $492.0M–$1119.3M before Steam's cut	$9.99	1.6M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
Roxy Raccoon's Bowling Bash 2022	Est. copies ≈ 570–927 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $782–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut	$4.99	23 reviews Positive	Bowling3D Platformer
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
IMPOSSIBALL 2022	Est. copies ≈ 25–40 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $14–$36 after Steam's cut $25–$56 before Steam's cut	$1.99	1 reviews 1 user reviews	AdventurePlatformer
The Edge Ball 2018	Est. copies ≈ 213–346 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue Free	Free	7 reviews 7 user reviews	CasualPlatformer
BandRoll 2023	Est. copies ≈ 3k–4k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut	$1.99	104 reviews Very Positive	Early AccessRhythm