How much revenue did The Last Cargo make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Last Cargo sell?

Q: How many copies did The Last Cargo sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 32 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$13k before the cut; from 32 reviews (Mixed)

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 The Last Cargo out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Last Cargo's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.5M–5.8M

best case 11.5M (Outlast)

Games like The Last Cargo

The middle of these games

≈ 2.5M–5.8M copies

≈ $9.1M–$48.3M after Steam's cut

from ~65k 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.

Best case: Outlast at ≈ 8.8M–14.2M copies, ≈ $36.1M–$97.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 392 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and Psychological Horror (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, 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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Five Nights at Freddy's 2014	Est. copies ≈ 3.3M–5.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $4.6M–$12.2M after Steam's cut $8.3M–$18.8M before the cut	$4.99	59k reviews Very Positive	HorrorSingleplayer
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
Outlast 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.8M–14.2M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.1M–$97.1M after Steam's cut $65.7M–$149.5M before the cut	$14.99	139k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorFirst-Person
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Outlast 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.2M–3.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.2M–$32.8M after Steam's cut $22.2M–$50.5M before the cut	$19.99	65k reviews Very Positive	Horror Psychological Horror
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