How much revenue did Blood Waves make?

$16k–$44k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Blood Waves sell?

Q: How many copies did Blood Waves sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 197 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $16k–$44k after Steam's cut $30k–$68k before the cut; from 197 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 Blood Waves out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Blood Waves's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 538k–976k

best case 4.6M (Fallout 76)

Games like Blood Waves

The middle of these games

≈ 538k–976k copies

≈ $3.7M–$9.4M after Steam's cut

from ~19k 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 76 at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $38.3M–$102.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 339 to 35k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (8 of 8) and Open World (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, 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 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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