How much revenue did The Complex: Expedition make?

$280k–$754k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Complex: Expedition sell?

Q: How many copies did The Complex: Expedition sell?

68k to 111k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 68k–111k; $280k–$754k after Steam's cut $510k–$1.2M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Very 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 The Complex: Expedition out and predicted the genre from its 4 similar games. Every figure here, including The Complex: Expedition's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–5.7M

best case 16.6M (Lethal Company)

Games like The Complex: Expedition

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–5.7M copies

≈ $11.4M–$27.9M after Steam's cut

from ~52k reviews

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

All 4 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Lethal Company at ≈ 12.7M–20.6M copies, ≈ $34.8M–$93.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 418 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (3 of 4) and Co-op (2 of 4).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + First-Person, priced around $10.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2023. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Lethal Company 2023	Est. copies ≈ 12.7M–20.6M 9.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $34.8M–$93.5M after Steam's cut $63.2M–$143.9M before the cut	$9.99	511k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Online Co-OpHorror
The Long Drive 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.1M–$19.1M after Steam's cut $12.9M–$29.4M before the cut	$15.99	56k reviews Very Positive	DrivingOpen World
Ghostwire: Tokyo 2022	Est. copies ≈ 522k–848k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.6M–$23.1M after Steam's cut $15.6M–$35.6M before the cut	$59.99	21k reviews Very Positive	SingleplayerSupernatural
Backrooms: Escape Together 2022	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.6M before the cut	$9.99	48k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerHorror