How much revenue did Metro Exodus make?

$27.7M–$74.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Metro Exodus sell?

Q: How many copies did Metro Exodus sell?

3.4M to 5.5M copies, based on its 135k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3.4M–5.5M; $27.7M–$74.4M after Steam's cut $50.3M–$114.5M before the cut; from 135k 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 Metro Exodus out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Metro Exodus's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.5M–7.5M

best case 31.7M (Dying Light)

Games like Metro Exodus

The middle of these games

≈ 4.5M–7.5M copies

≈ $75.2M–$91.7M after Steam's cut

from ~140k 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: Dying Light at ≈ 24.1M–39.2M copies, ≈ $165.8M–$445.8M 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 88k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 14k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (7 of 8) and Post-apocalyptic (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Zombies; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 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 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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