How much revenue did Primal Reign make?

Primal Reign is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Primal Reign sell?

Q: How many copies did Primal Reign sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 59 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; from 59 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 Primal Reign out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Primal Reign's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–5.5M

best case 8.9M (Resident Evil 4)

Games like Primal Reign

The middle of these games

≈ 3.0M–5.5M copies

≈ $44.0M–$79.2M after Steam's cut

from ~116k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Resident Evil 4 at ≈ 6.8M–11.1M copies, ≈ $74.9M–$201.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 45k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 27k to 68k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on VR (6 of 8) and Gore (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of your 7 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 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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SteamVR unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	86k reviews Very Positive	VRSoftware
Resident Evil 4 2023	Est. copies ≈ 6.8M–11.1M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $74.9M–$201.3M after Steam's cut $136.1M–$309.7M before the cut	$39.99	275k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorAction
Resident Evil Village 2021	Est. copies ≈ 3.8M–6.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $41.8M–$112.3M after Steam's cut $76.0M–$172.8M before the cut	$39.99	153k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Survival Horror Horror
Blade and Sorcery 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.7M–$34.1M after Steam's cut $23.1M–$52.5M before the cut	$29.99	62k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	VRSwordplay
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.3M–7.1M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.9M–$64.1M after Steam's cut $43.4M–$98.7M before the cut	$19.99	126k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Horror Survival Horror
Half-Life: Alyx 2020	Est. copies ≈ 2.6M–4.2M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $43.0M–$115.5M after Steam's cut $78.1M–$177.7M before the cut	$59.99	105k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	VRFPS
Raptor: Cretaceous Island 2018	Est. copies ≈ 274–445 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $602–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$2k before the cut	$7.99	9 reviews 9 user reviews	ActionAdventure
Primal Carnage: Onslaught 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut	$7.99	26 reviews Mixed	ActionIndie