How much revenue did The Last Survey make?

$715–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Last Survey sell?

Q: How many copies did The Last Survey sell?

521 to 846 copies, based on its 21 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 521–846; $715–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 21 reviews (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 The Last Survey out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Last Survey's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 244–1k

best case 1.1M (Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk)

Games like The Last Survey

The middle of these games

≈ 244–1k copies

≈ $151–$5k after Steam's cut

from ~16 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk at ≈ 850k–1.4M copies, ≈ $348k–$936k after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 165 reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Visual Novel (8 of 8) and Abstract (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Psychological Horror, priced around $1. The breakout hits carry Psychological Horror + Horror + Experimental; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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