How much revenue did Subterror make?

$26k–$69k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Subterror sell?

Q: How many copies did Subterror sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 474 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $26k–$69k after Steam's cut $47k–$107k before the cut; from 474 reviews (Very 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 Subterror out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Subterror's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 316k–3.5M

best case 15.1M (Subnautica)

Games like Subterror

The middle of these games

≈ 316k–3.5M copies

≈ $992k–$30.7M after Steam's cut

from ~23k 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: Subnautica at ≈ 11.5M–18.7M copies, ≈ $95.0M–$255.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 239 to 45k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (8 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, and 1 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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