How much revenue did Sunset Overdrive make?

$2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sunset Overdrive sell?

Q: How many copies did Sunset Overdrive sell?

439k to 714k copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 439k–714k; $2.4M–$6.5M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$10.0M before the cut; from 14k 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 Sunset Overdrive out and predicted the genre from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Sunset Overdrive's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 7.1M–9.8M

best case 9.8M (NARAKA: BLADEPOINT)

Games like Sunset Overdrive

The middle of these games

≈ 7.1M–9.8M copies

≈ $150.6M–$216.6M after Steam's cut

from ~219k reviews

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

All 5 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: NARAKA: BLADEPOINT at ≈ 7.5M–12.2M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 33k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 30k to 72k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (3 of 5) and Co-op (2 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Battle Royale + Martial Arts.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, 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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