How much revenue did Resident Evil 7 Biohazard make?

$24.1M–$64.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Resident Evil 7 Biohazard sell?

Q: How many copies did Resident Evil 7 Biohazard sell?

4.4M to 7.1M copies, based on its 128k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.4M–7.1M; $24.1M–$64.9M after Steam's cut $43.9M–$99.9M before Steam's cut; from 128k 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 Resident Evil 7 Biohazard and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Resident Evil 7 Biohazard's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14.0M–33.2M

best case 51.1M (Dead by Daylight)

Games like Resident Evil 7 Biohazard

A typical game among these

≈ 14.0M–33.2M copies

≈ $162.4M–$256.7M after Steam's cut

from ~532k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 39.0M–63.3M copies, ≈ $214.2M–$575.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (4 of 4) and Survival (4 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of the 4 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 52 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.6M–18.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.5M–$256.7M after Steam's cut $173.6M–$395.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	381k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Dead by Daylight 2016	Est. copies ≈ 39.0M–63.3M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $214.2M–$575.9M after Steam's cut $389.4M–$886.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	937k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.7M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut $207.5M–$472.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	683k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Sons Of The Forest 2024	Est. copies ≈ 8.0M–12.9M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $65.7M–$176.6M after Steam's cut $119.4M–$271.7M before Steam's cut	$29.99	321k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World