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How many copies did Vaccine Rebirth sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 818–1k
$2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut
from 33 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 Vaccine Rebirth out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Vaccine Rebirth's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 332k–424k
best case 9.4M (Don't Starve)
Games like Vaccine Rebirth

The middle of these games

≈ 332k–424k copies

≈ $784k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~10k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Survival (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Don't Starve at ≈ 7.2M–11.6M copies, ≈ $19.7M–$52.9M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 332 to 7k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Survival (4 of 8) and Horror (3 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Crafting + Adventure + Perma Death; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2013 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 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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