How much revenue did AWAY: The Survival Series make?

$52k–$140k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did AWAY: The Survival Series sell?

Q: How many copies did AWAY: The Survival Series sell?

9k to 15k copies, based on its 382 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–15k; $52k–$140k after Steam's cut $95k–$215k before Steam's cut; from 382 reviews (Mixed)

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 AWAY: The Survival Series and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including AWAY: The Survival Series's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–4.9M

best case 5.4M (Escape the Backrooms)

Games like AWAY: The Survival Series

A typical game among these

≈ 2.1M–4.9M copies

≈ $28.1M–$40.6M after Steam's cut

from ~90k 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: Escape the Backrooms at ≈ 4.1M–6.7M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 23k reviews in their first month; the range was 5k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Horror (5 of 8) and Co-op (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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