How much revenue did Lost Scavenger make?

$25k–$67k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Lost Scavenger sell?

Q: How many copies did Lost Scavenger sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 244 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $25k–$67k after Steam's cut $45k–$103k before the cut; from 244 reviews (Mixed)

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 Lost Scavenger out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including Lost Scavenger's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 150k–337k

best case 421k (ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game)

Games like Lost Scavenger

The middle of these games

≈ 150k–337k copies

≈ $1.0M–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

All 7 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game at ≈ 320k–521k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 695 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Post-apocalyptic (5 of 7) and Survival (5 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with CRPG + Exploration, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2021, and none of them 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 70 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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