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How many copies did Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 82k–134k
$226k–$609k after Steam's cut $412k–$937k before the cut
from 1k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.5M–28.3M
best case 50.8M (Dead by Daylight)
Games like Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut

The middle of these games

≈ 10.5M–28.3M copies

≈ $141.0M–$257.8M after Steam's cut

from ~437k 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: Dead by Daylight at ≈ 38.7M–62.9M copies, ≈ $212.7M–$571.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and Survival Horror (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 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 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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