How much revenue did Outscape make?

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

How many copies did Outscape sell?

Q: How many copies did Outscape sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 415 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; from 415 reviews (Mostly 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 Outscape and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Outscape's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–7.8M

best case 38.8M (Portal 2)

Games like Outscape

A typical game among these

≈ 2.9M–7.8M copies

≈ $7.9M–$77.4M after Steam's cut

from ~91k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Portal 2 at ≈ 29.5M–48.0M copies, ≈ $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share First-Person (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2019, 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 36 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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SCP: Secret Laboratory 2017	Est. copies ≈ 8.1M–13.1M 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	235k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayMultiplayer
Evolve Stage 2 2015	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	48k reviews Mostly Positive	ActionMultiplayer
UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–48.0M 5.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $81.1M–$218.1M after Steam's cut $147.5M–$335.6M before Steam's cut	$9.99	467k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Platformer Puzzle
PlanetSide 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 4.7M–7.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	75k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayFPS
Elite Dangerous 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.3M–8.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.9M–$77.8M after Steam's cut $52.6M–$119.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	108k reviews Mostly Positive	Space SimSpace
Splitgate 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.2M–5.2M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue Free	Free	110k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayFPS
Pacify 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–2.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut $3.1M–$7.0M before Steam's cut	$4.99	43k reviews Very Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op