How much revenue did Buried Alive: The Annihilation VR make?

$2k–$6k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Buried Alive: The Annihilation VR sell?

Q: How many copies did Buried Alive: The Annihilation VR sell?

570 to 927 copies, based on its 23 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 570–927; $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut; from 23 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Buried Alive: The Annihilation VR out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Buried Alive: The Annihilation VR's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.2M–6.0M

best case 8.1M (Z1 Battle Royale)

Games like Buried Alive: The Annihilation VR

The middle of these games

≈ 4.2M–6.0M copies

≈ $52.1M–$68.3M after Steam's cut

from ~136k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Z1 Battle Royale at ≈ 6.2M–10.0M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 15k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and FPS (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2020, and none of them 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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