How much revenue did The Outer Worlds make?

The Outer Worlds is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did The Outer Worlds sell?

Q: How many copies did The Outer Worlds sell?

702k to 1.1M copies, based on its 28k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 702k–1.1M; from 28k 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 The Outer Worlds out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Outer Worlds's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.8M–14.5M

best case 27.4M (Fallout 4)

Games like The Outer Worlds

The middle of these games

≈ 5.8M–14.5M copies

≈ $96.8M–$192.8M after Steam's cut

from ~181k 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: Fallout 4 at ≈ 20.9M–34.0M copies, ≈ $114.9M–$308.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 93k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 25k to 171k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (8 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2023, and none of them 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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Fallout 4 2015	Est. copies ≈ 20.9M–34.0M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.9M–$308.8M after Steam's cut $208.9M–$475.1M before the cut	$19.99	428k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldPost-apocalyptic
Fallout: New Vegas 2010	Est. copies ≈ 16.5M–26.8M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $45.3M–$121.9M after Steam's cut $82.5M–$187.6M before the cut	$9.99	261k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open WorldRPG
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