How much revenue did The Tribe Must Survive make?

$21k–$56k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Tribe Must Survive sell?

Q: How many copies did The Tribe Must Survive sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 205 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $21k–$56k after Steam's cut $38k–$87k before the cut; from 205 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 The Tribe Must Survive out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Tribe Must Survive's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 31k–85k

best case 1.1M (Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game)

Games like The Tribe Must Survive

The middle of these games

≈ 31k–85k copies

≈ $198k–$750k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game at ≈ 873k–1.4M copies, ≈ $7.2M–$19.4M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

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 64 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Management (6 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Automobile Sim + Early Access + Realistic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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