How much revenue did Vampire Survivors make?

$9.0M–$24.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Vampire Survivors sell?

Q: How many copies did Vampire Survivors sell?

6.6M to 10.7M copies, based on its 265k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6.6M–10.7M; $9.0M–$24.2M after Steam's cut $16.4M–$37.3M before the cut; from 265k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Vampire Survivors out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vampire Survivors's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–3.7M

best case 21.7M (Undertale)

Games like Vampire Survivors

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–3.7M copies

≈ $2.7M–$10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~47k 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: Undertale at ≈ 16.5M–26.8M copies, ≈ $45.3M–$121.9M 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 21k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 16k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (6 of 8) and Bullet Hell (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Choices Matter, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Great Soundtrack + Story Rich + Choices Matter; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, 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 79 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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