How much revenue did Survivors of the Dawn make?

$42k–$112k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Survivors of the Dawn sell?

Q: How many copies did Survivors of the Dawn sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 765 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $42k–$112k after Steam's cut $76k–$172k before the cut; from 765 reviews (Mostly 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 Survivors of the Dawn out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Survivors of the Dawn's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 994k–5.0M

best case 11.4M (Risk of Rain 2)

Games like Survivors of the Dawn

The middle of these games

≈ 994k–5.0M copies

≈ $3.6M–$10.0M after Steam's cut

from ~40k 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: Risk of Rain 2 at ≈ 8.7M–14.2M copies, ≈ $59.9M–$161.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 33k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 8k to 129k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Rogue-lite (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Third-Person Shooter + Action Roguelike, priced around $25.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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