How much revenue did METAL GEAR SURVIVE make?

$1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did METAL GEAR SURVIVE sell?

Q: How many copies did METAL GEAR SURVIVE sell?

173k to 281k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 173k–281k; $1.4M–$3.8M after Steam's cut $2.6M–$5.9M before the cut; from 6k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 9.8M–27.1M

best case 124.1M (PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS)

Games like METAL GEAR SURVIVE

The middle of these games

≈ 9.8M–27.1M copies

≈ $77.9M–$174.4M after Steam's cut

from ~290k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is First-Person (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: PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at ≈ 94.5M–153.6M copies.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on First-Person (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Shooter.
The era: None of the games you compared shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2018. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 38 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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