How much revenue did Apocalypse Love Shelter make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Apocalypse Love Shelter sell?

Q: How many copies did Apocalypse Love Shelter sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 76 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $8k–$19k before the cut; from 76 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 Apocalypse Love Shelter out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Apocalypse Love Shelter's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 114k–4.7M

best case 39.6M (Project Zomboid)

Games like Apocalypse Love Shelter

The middle of these games

≈ 114k–4.7M copies

≈ $377k–$83.5M after Steam's cut

from ~100k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Project Zomboid at ≈ 30.2M–49.0M copies, ≈ $207.3M–$557.3M after Steam's cut.

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 57 to 88k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Post-apocalyptic (8 of 8) and Survival (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Zombies, priced around $25.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 3 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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Project Zomboid 2013	Est. copies ≈ 30.2M–49.0M 4.8x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $207.3M–$557.3M after Steam's cut $376.9M–$857.4M before the cut	$24.99	477k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
Frostpunk 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.4M–$92.4M after Steam's cut $62.5M–$142.2M before the cut	$29.99	137k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Survival
Days Gone 2021	Est. copies ≈ 2.9M–4.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $31.8M–$85.5M after Steam's cut $57.8M–$131.5M before the cut	$39.99	117k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldZombies
ATOM RPG Trudograd 2021	Est. copies ≈ 110k–179k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $332k–$894k after Steam's cut $605k–$1.4M before the cut	$10.99	4k reviews Very Positive	CRPGOpen World
Fallout Shelter 2017	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	83k reviews Very Positive	Free to PlayBase-Building
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl 2024	Est. copies ≈ 3.4M–5.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $56.2M–$151.0M after Steam's cut $102.1M–$232.3M before the cut	$59.99	137k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldFPS
City 20 2024	Est. copies ≈ 5k–8k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $27k–$72k after Steam's cut $49k–$111k before the cut	$19.99	197 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessOpen World
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