How much revenue did Tru Or Die make?

$27k–$73k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tru Or Die sell?

Q: How many copies did Tru Or Die sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 399 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $27k–$73k after Steam's cut $49k–$112k before the cut; from 399 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 Tru Or Die out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tru Or Die's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 69.9M–128.5M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Tru Or Die

The middle of these games

≈ 69.9M–128.5M copies

≈ $182.0M after Steam's cut

from ~2.1M reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Open World (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 470k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, and 2 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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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
Grand Theft Auto V Legacy 2015	Est. copies ≈ 101.3M–164.6M SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.1M reviews Very Positive	Open WorldAction
Palworld 2026	Est. copies ≈ 12.0M–19.4M SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $98.7M–$265.3M after Steam's cut $179.4M–$408.2M before the cut	$29.99	482k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldSurvival
Galaxy City® 2022	Est. copies ≈ 670–1k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	27 reviews Mixed	Early AccessAction
UnScared 2021	Est. copies ≈ 223–363 too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $428–$1k after Steam's cut $779–$2k before the cut	$6.99	9 reviews 9 user reviews	ActionExploration
Famished zombies: Decisive extermination 2022	Est. copies ≈ 273–443 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $224–$603 after Steam's cut $408–$927 before the cut	$2.99	11 reviews Mixed	ActionShooter
Timothy vs the Aliens 2021	Est. copies ≈ 422–685 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $4k–$8k before the cut	$16.99	17 reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldThird-Person Shooter
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