How much revenue did Sun Down Survivors make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sun Down Survivors sell?

Q: How many copies did Sun Down Survivors sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 199 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$28k before the cut; from 199 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 Sun Down Survivors out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sun Down Survivors's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 252k–586k

best case 873k (Children of Morta)

Games like Sun Down Survivors

The middle of these games

≈ 252k–586k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Children of Morta at ≈ 665k–1.1M copies, ≈ $4.0M–$10.8M 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 761 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action Roguelike (8 of 8) and Bullet Hell (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Hack and Slash, priced around $22.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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).

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