How much revenue did Fargone make?

$49k–$132k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fargone sell?

Q: How many copies did Fargone sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 599 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $49k–$132k after Steam's cut $89k–$203k before the cut; from 599 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 Fargone out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fargone's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 25k–1.8M

best case 25.5M (Unturned)

Games like Fargone

The middle of these games

≈ 25k–1.8M copies

≈ $118k–$5.9M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Unturned at ≈ 19.4M–31.6M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 610 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 13k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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Dysterra 2025	Est. copies ≈ 19k–31k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	771 reviews Mixed	SingleplayerPvE
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KeepUp Survival 2024	Est. copies ≈ 19k–30k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $77k–$206k after Steam's cut $139k–$317k before the cut	$14.99	749 reviews Mixed	Open World Survival CraftBase-Building
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