How much revenue did The Blackout Club make?

$685k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Blackout Club sell?

Q: How many copies did The Blackout Club sell?

83k to 135k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 83k–135k; $685k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 The Blackout Club and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Blackout Club's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6.8M–12.6M

best case 18.7M (DayZ)

Games like The Blackout Club

A typical game among these

≈ 6.8M–12.6M copies

≈ $72.2M–$200.6M after Steam's cut

from ~231k 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 Open World (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: DayZ at ≈ 14.3M–23.2M copies, ≈ $196.4M–$527.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (4 of 8) and Survival (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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 61 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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The Isle 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.9M–9.6M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $32.6M–$87.7M after Steam's cut $59.3M–$134.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	122k reviews Very Positive	DinosaursSurvival
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DayZ 2018	Est. copies ≈ 14.3M–23.2M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $196.4M–$527.9M after Steam's cut $357.0M–$812.2M before Steam's cut	$49.99	470k reviews Mostly Positive	SurvivalOpen World
7 Days to Die 2024	Est. copies ≈ 9.9M–16.2M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $123.1M–$331.0M after Steam's cut $223.8M–$509.2M before Steam's cut	$44.99	401k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies