How much revenue did Eastward make?

$2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Eastward sell?

Q: How many copies did Eastward sell?

412k to 670k copies, based on its 17k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 412k–670k; $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.2M–$11.7M before Steam's cut; from 17k 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 Eastward and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Eastward's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 47k–13.3M

best case 27.5M (Fallout 4)

Games like Eastward

A typical game among these

≈ 47k–13.3M copies

≈ $275k–$81.6M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Fallout 4 at ≈ 21.0M–34.1M copies, ≈ $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 127 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Post-apocalyptic (8 of 8) and Action RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Fallout 4 2015	Est. copies ≈ 21.0M–34.1M 153x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut $209.4M–$476.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	429k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldPost-apocalyptic
ESCAPELAND 2024	Est. copies ≈ 223–363 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $306–$824 after Steam's cut $556–$1k before Steam's cut	$4.99	9 reviews 9 user reviews	Early AccessAtmospheric
Fallout: New Vegas 2010	Est. copies ≈ 16.6M–26.9M 93x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $45.5M–$122.3M after Steam's cut $82.7M–$188.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	262k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open WorldRPG
Meifumado 2024	Est. copies ≈ 4k–7k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $19k–$50k after Steam's cut $34k–$77k before Steam's cut	$14.99	181 reviews Mixed	RPGAction RPG
Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut 2021	Est. copies ≈ 47k–76k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $193k–$518k after Steam's cut $350k–$796k before Steam's cut	$14.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Post-apocalypticSurvival
UNDYING - "KINGDOM" 2023	Est. copies ≈ 47k–76k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $258k–$692k after Steam's cut $468k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Story RichMultiple Endings
Death Trash 2021	Est. copies ≈ 92k–150k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $508k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $924k–$2.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessPost-apocalyptic
Metro 2033 Redux 2014	Est. copies ≈ 8.0M–12.9M 51x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $43.8M–$117.8M after Steam's cut $79.6M–$181.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	142k reviews Very Positive	Post-apocalypticFPS