How much revenue did Graveyard Keeper make?

$9.4M–$25.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Graveyard Keeper sell?

Q: How many copies did Graveyard Keeper sell?

1.7M to 2.8M copies, based on its 56k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.7M–2.8M; $9.4M–$25.2M after Steam's cut $17.1M–$38.8M before Steam's cut; from 56k reviews (Very 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 Graveyard Keeper and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Graveyard Keeper's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.1M–44.1M

best case 56.0M (Rust)

Games like Graveyard Keeper

A typical game among these

≈ 7.1M–44.1M copies

≈ $86.8M–$344.9M after Steam's cut

from ~329k 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.

Best case: Rust at ≈ 42.7M–69.3M copies, ≈ $469.3M–$1261.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 182k reviews in their first month; the range was 86k to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (6 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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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Space Engineers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.3M–$57.3M after Steam's cut $38.7M–$88.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	135k reviews Very Positive	SpaceSandbox
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Rust 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.3M 4.3x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $469.3M–$1261.8M after Steam's cut $853.3M–$1941.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	1.4M reviews Very Positive	SurvivalCrafting
ASTRONEER 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $33.1M–$89.1M after Steam's cut $60.2M–$137.0M before Steam's cut	$29.99	139k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerOpen World
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Project Zomboid 2013	Est. copies ≈ 30.5M–49.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $209.9M–$564.4M after Steam's cut $381.6M–$868.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	483k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
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