How much revenue did SURV1V3 make?

$306k–$823k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SURV1V3 sell?

Q: How many copies did SURV1V3 sell?

45k to 72k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 45k–72k; $306k–$823k after Steam's cut $556k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 SURV1V3 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SURV1V3's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 35k–1.2M

best case 2.2M (Bodycam)

Games like SURV1V3

A typical game among these

≈ 35k–1.2M copies

≈ $382k–$5.1M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Bodycam at ≈ 1.7M–2.7M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 499 to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Zombies (6 of 8) and VR (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Realistic, priced around $33.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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 Pirates And Zombies 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 98k–159k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $537k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $976k–$2.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	SpaceStrategy
Contagion VR: Outbreak 2020	Est. copies ≈ 17k–28k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $48k–$128k after Steam's cut $86k–$197k before Steam's cut	$9.99	698 reviews Mixed	IndieVR
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Bodycam 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.7M 10x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut $27.8M–$63.3M before Steam's cut	$33.32	67k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessFPS
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