How much revenue did Karate Survivor make?

$114k–$307k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Karate Survivor sell?

Q: How many copies did Karate Survivor sell?

83k to 135k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 83k–135k; $114k–$307k after Steam's cut $208k–$473k before the cut; from 3k 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 Karate Survivor out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Karate Survivor's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.5M–2.5M

best case 9.8M (NARAKA: BLADEPOINT)

Games like Karate Survivor

The middle of these games

≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies

≈ $14.4M–$39.7M after Steam's cut

from ~72k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Fighting (4 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: NARAKA: BLADEPOINT at ≈ 7.5M–12.2M copies.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 48k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Fighting (4 of 8) and Martial Arts (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + Martial Arts.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2024, and 2 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 38 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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