How much revenue did Unplagued make?

$269k–$724k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Unplagued sell?

Q: How many copies did Unplagued sell?

123k to 199k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 123k–199k; $269k–$724k after Steam's cut $490k–$1.1M before the cut; from 5k reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Unplagued out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unplagued's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.3M–5.5M

best case 27.2M (The Forest)

Games like Unplagued

The middle of these games

≈ 5.3M–5.5M copies

≈ $19.4M–$42.4M after Steam's cut

from ~144k 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.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.7M–33.6M copies, ≈ $113.8M–$305.9M 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 61k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 35k to 114k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Horror (7 of 8) and First-Person (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Open World Survival Craft + Survival + Open World; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 52 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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