How much revenue did Barotrauma make?

$21.5M–$57.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Barotrauma sell?

Q: How many copies did Barotrauma sell?

2.2M to 3.6M copies, based on its 90k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.2M–3.6M; $21.5M–$57.8M after Steam's cut $39.1M–$88.9M before Steam's cut; from 90k 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 Barotrauma and predicted how it would do from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Barotrauma's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33.6M–40.4M

best case 56.0M (Rust)

Games like Barotrauma

A typical game among these

≈ 33.6M–40.4M copies

≈ $130.6M–$534.6M after Steam's cut

from ~925k 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 4 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (3 of 4) and Building (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 43 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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Among Us 2018	Est. copies ≈ 22.8M–37.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $31.3M–$84.0M after Steam's cut $56.8M–$129.3M before Steam's cut	$4.99	749k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerSocial Deduction
Apex Legends™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 26.6M–43.2M SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.1M reviews Mixed	Free to PlayBattle Royale
Rust 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.3M 1.5x 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
ARK: Survival Evolved 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26.8M–43.5M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut $200.7M–$456.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	779k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival