How much revenue did The Infected make?

$762k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Infected sell?

Q: How many copies did The Infected sell?

173k to 282k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 173k–282k; $762k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before the cut; from 7k 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 The Infected out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Infected's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–13.0M

best case 35.1M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like The Infected

The middle of these games

≈ 2.9M–13.0M copies

≈ $38.5M–$115.0M after Steam's cut

from ~120k 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 40k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 182k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World Survival Craft (8 of 8) and Survival (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
ICARUS 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.7M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $16.1M–$43.4M after Steam's cut $29.3M–$66.7M before the cut	$34.99	68k reviews Mostly Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
Raft 2022	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.2M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.5M–$138.4M after Steam's cut $93.6M–$213.0M before the cut	$19.99	378k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalMultiplayer
Green Hell 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $22.5M–$60.4M after Steam's cut $40.9M–$92.9M before the cut	$27.99	101k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
ARK: Survival Evolved 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26.7M–43.4M 6.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut $200.2M–$455.4M before the cut	$14.99	776k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.5M–18.7M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.0M–$255.4M after Steam's cut $172.7M–$393.0M before the cut	$29.99	379k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Grounded 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2.4M–3.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $26.1M–$70.0M after Steam's cut $47.4M–$107.8M before the cut	$39.99	96k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalMultiplayer
ASTRONEER 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $33.0M–$88.8M after Steam's cut $60.1M–$136.6M before the cut	$29.99	139k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerOpen World
Forager 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.0M–$18.7M after Steam's cut $12.7M–$28.8M before the cut	$19.99	44k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival