How much revenue did UnReal World make?

$230k–$618k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did UnReal World sell?

Q: How many copies did UnReal World sell?

58k to 94k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 58k–94k; $230k–$618k after Steam's cut $418k–$950k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 UnReal World and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including UnReal World's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–7.7M

best case 29.7M (Don't Starve Together)

Games like UnReal World

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–7.7M copies

≈ $10.6M–$65.8M after Steam's cut

from ~68k 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: Don't Starve Together at ≈ 22.6M–36.8M copies, ≈ $93.2M–$250.7M after Steam's cut.

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 8k to 110k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (6 of 8) and Crafting (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 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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