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How many copies did Smalland: Survive the Wilds sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 259k–420k
$2.5M–$6.7M after Steam's cut $4.5M–$10.3M before the cut
from 10k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Smalland: Survive the Wilds out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Smalland: Survive the Wilds's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 13.5M–17.1M
best case 35.1M (ARK: Survival Evolved)
Games like Smalland: Survive the Wilds

The middle of these games

≈ 13.5M–17.1M copies

≈ $176.9M–$203.7M after Steam's cut

from ~441k 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: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.7M–43.4M copies, ≈ $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 255k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 132k to 470k.
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 Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
The era
The games you compared span 2017 to 2026, 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 43 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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