How to Survive
Short description
“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?
- Developer
- Eko Software
- Publisher
- 505 Games
- Release
- Fri, Aug 29, 2014
- Price
- $14.99
- Reviews
- 13,992
- Positive
- 83%
- Followers
- 45,012
- Owners (estimated)
- 1M – 2M
- Concurrent players
- 10
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, RPG
- Features
- Multi-player, Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Leaderboards, Remote Play on TV, Remote Play Together
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $12.89, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $14.99 launch price. That is 14% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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Media
History
73 data points since Aug 10, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.
The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
The blurred area is the rest of the history. 355 further data points reach back to Oct 1, 2013 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.
Lowest recorded price: $0.74 on Jun 14, 2015.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Raft | Redbeet Interactive first game | 4 | − Zombies − Action + Multiplayer + Open World | $13.39 33% |
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Grounded | Obsidian Entertainment 16 titles | 4 | − Zombies − Action + Multiplayer + Base-Building | $39.99 | 76,111 | 91% | Tue, Sep 27, 2022 | $117m $68.2m – $170m |
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Dead Island Definitive Edition | Techland 13 titles | 4 | − Crafting − Open World Survival Craft + Open World + Multiplayer | $19.99 | 24,185 | 82% | Tue, May 31, 2016 | $17.9m $16.4m – $31.8m |
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Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition | Capcom Game Studio Vancouver, Inc. 2 titles | 4 | − Crafting − Open World Survival Craft + Open World + Gore | $5.99 80% best price ever |
13,908 | 78% | Fri, Sep 05, 2014 | $26m $26m – $28.9m |
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How to Survive 2 | Eko Software 11 titles | 4 | − Crafting − Action + Multiplayer + Open World | $14.99 | 8,640 | 69% | Thu, Sep 08, 2016 | $6.6m $6.6m – $9.1m |
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