How much revenue did The Surge make?

$1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Surge sell?

Q: How many copies did The Surge sell?

421k to 684k copies, based on its 12k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 421k–684k; $1.7M–$4.7M after Steam's cut $3.2M–$7.2M before the cut; from 12k reviews (Mostly Positive)

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 The Surge out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Surge's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 793k–2.8M

best case 6.6M (STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™)

Games like The Surge

The middle of these games

≈ 793k–2.8M copies

≈ $6.9M–$67.5M after Steam's cut

from ~45k 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: STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ at ≈ 5.0M–8.2M copies, ≈ $55.5M–$149.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 5k to 46k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Third Person (8 of 8) and Sci-fi (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + Souls-like, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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).

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The Surge 2 2019	Est. copies ≈ 275k–447k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.1M after Steam's cut $4.1M–$9.4M before the cut	$29.99	10k reviews Mostly Positive	Souls-likeRPG
CONTROL Ultimate Edition 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $17.3M–$46.6M after Steam's cut $31.5M–$71.8M before the cut	$39.99	64k reviews Very Positive	ActionSupernatural
STAR WARS™ - The Force Unleashed™ Ultimate Sith Edition 2009	Est. copies ≈ 774k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.3M–$11.4M after Steam's cut $7.7M–$17.6M before the cut	$19.99	12k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionSingleplayer
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.2M 3.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $55.5M–$149.2M after Steam's cut $100.9M–$229.5M before the cut	$39.99	175k reviews Very Positive	Action-AdventureSouls-like
LIZARDS MUST DIE 2023	Est. copies ≈ 656k–1.1M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $720k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before the cut	$3.99	26k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HistoricalSouls-like
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart 2023	Est. copies ≈ 448k–728k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.4M–$19.9M after Steam's cut $13.4M–$30.6M before the cut	$59.99	18k reviews Very Positive	Adventure3D Platformer
STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.5M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $41.0M–$110.2M after Steam's cut $74.5M–$169.5M before the cut	$69.99	86k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionAdventure
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