How much revenue did Enshrouded make?

$21.5M–$57.7M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Enshrouded sell?

Q: How many copies did Enshrouded sell?

2.6M to 4.2M copies, based on its 105k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.6M–4.2M; $21.5M–$57.7M after Steam's cut $39.0M–$88.8M before the cut; from 105k reviews (Very Positive)

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 Enshrouded out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Enshrouded's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.4M–13.1M

best case 35.1M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like Enshrouded

The middle of these games

≈ 5.4M–13.1M copies

≈ $60.7M–$144.8M after Steam's cut

from ~282k 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: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.7M–43.4M copies, ≈ $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 180k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 92k to 470k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (8 of 8) and Base-Building (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2026, and 3 of your 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 43 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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