How much revenue did The Culling make?

The Culling is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did The Culling sell?

Q: How many copies did The Culling sell?

592k to 962k copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 592k–962k; from 17k reviews (Mixed)

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 The Culling and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Culling's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 768k–14.8M

best case 125.7M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like The Culling

A typical game among these

≈ 768k–14.8M copies

from ~69k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 95.8M–155.7M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Battle Royale (8 of 8) and Shooter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 43 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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Last Man Standing 2017	Est. copies ≈ 596k–968k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	17k reviews Mixed	Free to PlaySurvival
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 95.8M–155.7M 40x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.8M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Ring of Elysium 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	99k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayBattle Royale
Z1 Battle Royale 2018	Est. copies ≈ 6.2M–10.0M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	202k reviews Mixed	SurvivalMassively Multiplayer
Creative Destruction 2018	Est. copies ≈ 552k–897k SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	18k reviews Mostly Positive	MultiplayerBattle Royale
Apex Legends™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 26.6M–43.2M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.1M reviews Mixed	Free to PlayBattle Royale
CRSED: Cuisine Royale 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	39k reviews Mostly Positive	Battle RoyaleFree to Play
Battlerite Royale 2019	Est. copies ≈ 235k–381k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	8k reviews Mostly Positive	Battle RoyaleFree to Play