How many copies did XERA: Survival sell?

197k to 320k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did XERA: Survival make?

XERA: Survival is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is XERA: Survival?

Estimated owners: ≈ 197k–320k; from 8k 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 XERA: Survival out and predicted the genre from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including XERA: Survival's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.3M–15.1M

best case 15.7M (Palworld)

Games like XERA: Survival

The middle of these games

≈ 12.3M–15.1M copies

≈ $140.2M–$182.0M after Steam's cut

from ~379k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 5 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Palworld at ≈ 12.0M–19.4M copies, ≈ $98.7M–$265.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 256k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 182k to 470k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 5) and Base-Building (4 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $30.
The era: 3 of your 5 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 38 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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Raft 2022	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.2M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.5M–$138.4M after Steam's cut $93.6M–$213.0M before the cut	$19.99	378k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalMultiplayer
Palworld 2026	Est. copies ≈ 12.0M–19.4M SteamSpy 50M–100M	Est. revenue $98.7M–$265.3M after Steam's cut $179.4M–$408.2M before the cut	$29.99	482k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldSurvival
Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.5M–18.7M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.0M–$255.4M after Steam's cut $172.7M–$393.0M before the cut	$29.99	379k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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