How much revenue did Sons Of The Forest make?

$65.0M–$174.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sons Of The Forest sell?

Q: How many copies did Sons Of The Forest sell?

7.9M to 12.8M copies, based on its 318k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7.9M–12.8M; $65.0M–$174.9M after Steam's cut $118.2M–$269.0M before the cut; from 318k 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 Sons Of The Forest out and predicted the genre from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Sons Of The Forest's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 30.7M–44.2M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Sons Of The Forest

The middle of these games

≈ 30.7M–44.2M copies

≈ $171.8M–$367.9M after Steam's cut

from ~894k reviews

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

All 5 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (4 of 5) and Building (3 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Shooter + Battle Royale + FPS; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Rust 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42.4M–68.9M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $466.2M–$1253.5M after Steam's cut $847.6M–$1928.4M before the cut	$39.99	1.4M reviews Very Positive	SurvivalCrafting
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
Valheim 2021	Est. copies ≈ 13.4M–21.8M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $110.6M–$297.4M after Steam's cut $201.1M–$457.5M before the cut	$29.99	541k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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