How much revenue did Badiya: Desert Survival make?

$78k–$210k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Badiya: Desert Survival sell?

Q: How many copies did Badiya: Desert Survival sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 342 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $78k–$210k after Steam's cut $142k–$324k before Steam's cut; from 342 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 Badiya: Desert Survival and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Badiya: Desert Survival's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 351k–443k

best case 23.0M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Badiya: Desert Survival

A typical game among these

≈ 351k–443k copies

≈ $2.5M–$3.0M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.5M–28.5M copies, ≈ $289.3M–$777.8M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 35k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World Survival Craft (8 of 8) and Survival (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Adventure + Exploration; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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 70 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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