How much revenue did Hurtworld make?

$6.1M–$16.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Hurtworld sell?

Q: How many copies did Hurtworld sell?

892k to 1.4M copies, based on its 31k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 892k–1.4M; $6.1M–$16.5M after Steam's cut $11.1M–$25.4M before the cut; from 31k reviews (Mostly 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 Hurtworld out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Hurtworld's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17.3M–34.5M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like Hurtworld

The middle of these games

≈ 17.3M–34.5M copies

≈ $152.4M–$293.7M after Steam's cut

from ~448k 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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (7 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
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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PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 6.1x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
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The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M 1.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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