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 416 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; from 416 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 Outscape out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Outscape's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.6M–8.7M

best case 38.7M (Portal 2)

Games like Outscape

The middle of these games

≈ 3.6M–8.7M copies

≈ $31.3M–$101.3M after Steam's cut

from ~108k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

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–47.9M copies, ≈ $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Puzzle, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared 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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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 the cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
Portal 2 2011	Est. copies ≈ 29.5M–47.9M 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $80.9M–$217.6M after Steam's cut $147.2M–$334.8M before the cut	$9.99	466k 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
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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 ≈ 0 too small to compare SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $0 after Steam's cut $0 before the cut	$4.99	0 reviews No user reviews	HorrorOnline Co-Op