How much revenue did Barotrauma make?

$24.4M–$65.7M 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; $24.4M–$65.7M after Steam's cut $44.4M–$101.1M before the cut; from 90k reviews (Very Positive)

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 Barotrauma out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including Barotrauma's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33.5M–40.2M

best case 55.6M (Rust)

Games like Barotrauma

The middle of these games

≈ 33.5M–40.2M copies

≈ $130.4M–$531.6M after Steam's cut

from ~923k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Rust at ≈ 42.4M–68.9M copies, ≈ $466.2M–$1253.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (3 of 4) and Building (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2020. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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Apex Legends™ 2020	Est. copies ≈ 26.5M–43.0M SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.1M reviews Mixed	Free to PlayBattle Royale
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