How much revenue did The Great Fear make?

The Great Fear is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did The Great Fear sell?

Q: How many copies did The Great Fear sell?

248 to 403 copies, based on its 10 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 248–403; from 10 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 The Great Fear out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Great Fear's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 56k–134k

best case 1.8M (DREDGE)

Games like The Great Fear

The middle of these games

≈ 56k–134k copies

≈ $274k–$361k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Action RPG (3 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: DREDGE at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $10.4M–$28.0M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 529 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Action RPG (3 of 8) and Zombies (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Zombies, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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 61 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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