How much revenue did SCUM make?

$38.9M–$104.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SCUM sell?

Q: How many copies did SCUM sell?

3.1M to 5.1M copies, based on its 127k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3.1M–5.1M; $38.9M–$104.5M after Steam's cut $70.6M–$160.7M before the cut; from 127k 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 SCUM out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SCUM's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 19.6M–31.2M

best case 128.9M (Terraria)

Games like SCUM

The middle of these games

≈ 19.6M–31.2M copies

≈ $182.0M–$204.5M after Steam's cut

from ~543k 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: Terraria at ≈ 98.2M–159.6M copies, ≈ $269.8M–$725.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (8 of 8) and Crafting (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + PvP + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2026, and 1 of your 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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