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How many copies did Outlaws of the Old West sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 181k–295k
$996k–$2.7M after Steam's cut $1.8M–$4.1M before the cut
from 6k reviews (Mixed)

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 Outlaws of the Old West out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Outlaws of the Old West's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–109k
best case 55.6M (Rust)
Games like Outlaws of the Old West

The middle of these games

≈ 15k–109k copies

≈ $114k–$991k 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.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Rust at ≈ 42.4M–68.9M copies, ≈ $466.2M–$1253.5M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 134 to 2k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Open World Survival Craft (8 of 8) and Survival (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $17. The breakout hits carry Building + Open World + Crafting; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 1 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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