How much revenue did COVID: The Outbreak make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did COVID: The Outbreak sell?

Q: How many copies did COVID: The Outbreak sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 97 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$38k before the cut; from 97 reviews (Mostly 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 COVID: The Outbreak out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including COVID: The Outbreak's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 215k–2.8M

best case 7.3M (Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition)

Games like COVID: The Outbreak

The middle of these games

≈ 215k–2.8M copies

≈ $2.4M–$8.7M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Total War: ROME II - Emperor Edition at ≈ 5.6M–9.0M copies, ≈ $91.8M–$246.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 858 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Grand Strategy (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Historical + Turn-Based Strategy, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 1 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 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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