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The realistic ceiling for Survival horror games

Two honest views of what Survival horror games do on Steam: the whole market from a systematic sample, and the games gathered here. Kept separate on purpose.

The market
A typical game sells
≈ under 20k copies
under $70k after Steam's cut, est.
The top decile
≈ 200k–500k copies
$699k–$1.7M after Steam's cut, est.

Half the reviews in SteamSpy's sample of 4,087 Survival horror games sit with 20 of them.

Based on the 4,087 Survival horror games SteamSpy lists, its visible subset, not the whole market. Games are grouped by the tags players give them, which are applied loosely, so a genre's edges are fuzzy. Owners are SteamSpy estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

The Survival horror games gathered on wishvane

Across the 191 Survival horror games compared here, a typical one runs ≈ 39k–121k copies (est.), with Dead by Daylight the biggest comparable game at ≈ 36.8M–59.8M. A small, self-selected sample, not the whole market.

  • The Survival horror games gathered here span 2007 to 2026, a long track record.
  • Across the Survival horror games gathered here the median price is $12.49, and the biggest charge more, around $20.

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Building a Survival horror game? This genre already ran your experiment. Add the games yours will be compared to and see what's realistic, before you spend months on it.

Market data from SteamSpy; game data from Steam and SteamSpy. Copies and revenue are rough estimates from public review counts, not exact sales.

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