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How many copies did Virus at Home sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 868–1k
$714–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut
from 35 reviews (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 Virus at Home out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Virus at Home's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.6M–12.1M
best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)
Games like Virus at Home

The middle of these games

≈ 10.6M–12.1M copies

≈ $87.3M–$124.1M after Steam's cut

from ~234k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 76k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 42k to 143k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Shooter (8 of 8) and FPS (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Survival + Battle Royale + PvP; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2004 to 2023, 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 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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