How many copies did The Flood sell?

38k to 62k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did The Flood make?

The Flood is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is The Flood?

Estimated owners: ≈ 38k–62k; from 1k reviews (Very 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 The Flood out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Flood's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 81k–312k

best case 1.5M (The Beginner's Guide)

Games like The Flood

The middle of these games

≈ 81k–312k copies

≈ $166k–$304k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Beginner's Guide at ≈ 1.1M–1.9M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Short (6 of 8) and First-Person (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich + Walking Simulator, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2018, 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 38 for the most recent game here to about 79 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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Indecision. 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20k–32k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $16k–$43k after Steam's cut $29k–$67k before the cut	$2.99	645 reviews Very Positive	ExperienceExperimental
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