How much revenue did Subnautica: Below Zero make?

$22.1M–$59.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Subnautica: Below Zero sell?

Q: How many copies did Subnautica: Below Zero sell?

2.7M to 4.4M copies, based on its 108k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2.7M–4.4M; $22.1M–$59.5M after Steam's cut $40.2M–$91.5M before the cut; from 108k 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 Subnautica: Below Zero out and predicted the genre from its 5 similar games. Every figure here, including Subnautica: Below Zero's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 282k–12.3M

best case 15.1M (Subnautica)

Games like Subnautica: Below Zero

The middle of these games

≈ 282k–12.3M copies

≈ $4.9M–$115.0M after Steam's cut

from ~24k 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: Subnautica at ≈ 11.5M–18.7M copies, ≈ $95.0M–$255.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 182k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Crafting (5 of 5) and Open World Survival Craft (5 of 5).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 of your 5 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 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.5M–18.7M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.0M–$255.4M after Steam's cut $172.7M–$393.0M before the cut	$29.99	379k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Raft 2022	Est. copies ≈ 9.4M–15.2M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $51.5M–$138.4M after Steam's cut $93.6M–$213.0M before the cut	$19.99	378k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalMultiplayer
Sunkenland 2023	Est. copies ≈ 590k–959k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.4M before the cut	$19.99	24k reviews Very Positive	Early AccessOpen World Survival Craft
FarSky 2014	Est. copies ≈ 215k–349k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mostly Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
Survival: Fountain of Youth 2024	Est. copies ≈ 111k–181k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $856k–$2.3M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.5M before the cut	$27.99	4k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft