How much revenue did KURSK make?

$83k–$222k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did KURSK sell?

Q: How many copies did KURSK sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 495 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $83k–$222k after Steam's cut $150k–$342k before the cut; from 495 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 213k–415k

best case 2.9M (Barotrauma)

Games like KURSK

The middle of these games

≈ 213k–415k copies

≈ $955k–$6.9M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Barotrauma at ≈ 2.2M–3.6M copies, ≈ $24.4M–$65.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 43k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Naval (7 of 8) and Military (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Co-op + Survival, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2024, 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 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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