How much revenue did LEFT ALIVE™ make?

$436k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did LEFT ALIVE™ sell?

Q: How many copies did LEFT ALIVE™ sell?

26k to 43k copies, based on its 918 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 26k–43k; $436k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $793k–$1.8M before the cut; from 918 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–4.3M

best case 12.0M (People Playground)

Games like LEFT ALIVE™

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–4.3M copies

≈ $14.1M–$30.7M after Steam's cut

from ~55k 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: People Playground at ≈ 9.1M–14.9M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6k to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Gore (8 of 8) and Violent (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Sandbox + Moddable + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 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 61 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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