How much revenue did BIOMUTANT make?

$5.5M–$14.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did BIOMUTANT sell?

Q: How many copies did BIOMUTANT sell?

501k to 815k copies, based on its 20k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 501k–815k; $5.5M–$14.8M after Steam's cut $10.0M–$22.8M before Steam's cut; from 20k 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 BIOMUTANT and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including BIOMUTANT's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8.2M–21.2M

best case 27.5M (Fallout 4)

Games like BIOMUTANT

A typical game among these

≈ 8.2M–21.2M copies

≈ $116.1M–$268.7M after Steam's cut

from ~375k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Fallout 4 at ≈ 21.0M–34.1M copies, ≈ $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 25k reviews in their first month; the range was 179 to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (7 of 8) and Post-apocalyptic (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, and 1 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 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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Fallout: New Vegas 2010	Est. copies ≈ 16.6M–26.9M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $45.5M–$122.3M after Steam's cut $82.7M–$188.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	262k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open WorldRPG
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