Vortex: The Gateway

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Vortex: The Gateway

Short description

Vortex: The Gateway is an open world survival horror game with two game modes. If you want to survive then be alert, sneak, build and fight. Meanwhile life back on Earth changes dramatically. What changes? You will get bits of information through your adventure. Prepare for the worst!

Developer
StormCube Games
Publisher
StormCube Games
Release
Tue, Mar 22, 2016
Price
$7.99
Reviews
306
Positive
54%
Followers
12,120
Owners (estimated)
0 – 20K
Concurrent players
n/a
Genres
Action, Adventure, Indie
Features
Full controller support, Captions available
Tags
Open World Survival Craft Survival Adventure Open World Action Indie Crafting Survival Horror Aliens Building Horror Early Access First-Person Singleplayer
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$102ksomewhere between $45k and $148k · roughly 6K–20K copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $7.41, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $7.99 launch price. That is 7% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

11 data points since Aug 15, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$102k → ~$102k
Reviews 305 → 306
Followers 12,124 → 12,120
Price $7.99 → $7.99
Positive reviews 54.1% → 53.9%

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. 289 further data points reach back to Oct 1, 2015 — 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: $3.19 on Aug 30, 2017.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Vortex: The Gateway is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Open World Survival Craft + Survival + Adventure

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