How many copies has Plague Inc: Evolved sold?

indielist estimates Plague Inc: Evolved has sold between 2,919,960 and 6,813,240 units (median 4,866,600), derived from its 64,888 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Plague Inc: Evolved?

Plague Inc: Evolved was developed by Ndemic Creations and published by Ndemic Creations.

Who published Plague Inc: Evolved?

Plague Inc: Evolved was published by Ndemic Creations, developed by Ndemic Creations. See Ndemic Creations's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Plague Inc: Evolved released?

Plague Inc: Evolved was released in 2016.

How many reviews does Plague Inc: Evolved have on Steam?

Plague Inc: Evolved has 64,888 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.

Is Plague Inc: Evolved worth playing?

Steam players rate Plague Inc: Evolved 94% positive across 64,888 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Plague Inc: Evolved

Feb 18, 2016 Casual $14.99

Developer Ndemic Creations Publisher Ndemic Creations

Profile updated May 2026

Plague Inc: Evolved is a casual simulation strategy game released in 2016. It has garnered 55,295 positive reviews on Steam. The developer slug is unknown.

Plague Inc: Evolved is a 2016 Casual game developed by Ndemic Creations and published by Ndemic Creations. On Steam it has gathered 64,888 player reviews, 94% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Casual category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer Ndemic Creations with publisher Ndemic Creations is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Casual projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 2.9 million to 6.8 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Plague Inc: Evolved can be compared against similar Casual titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

64,888

Positive

94%

Steam appid

246620

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

1,804

Historical snapshot · 2026-06-07 12:56 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

2.9M to 6.8M

units (median: 4.9M)

≈ $25.0M to $58.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

2.9M median 6.8M

+ How is this calculated?

64,888 reviews × NB(75) = 4,866,600 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$15	0
positive_94%	+10
genre_Casual	-15
final NB	75

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Plague Inc: Evolved at roughly 2.9 million to 6.8 million copies, with a median around 4.9 million, derived from its 64,888 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $41.7M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $1.49

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.49 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $1.49 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Plague Inc: Evolved sold?: indielist estimates Plague Inc: Evolved has sold between 2,919,960 and 6,813,240 units (median 4,866,600), derived from its 64,888 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Plague Inc: Evolved?: Plague Inc: Evolved was developed by Ndemic Creations and published by Ndemic Creations.
Who published Plague Inc: Evolved?: Plague Inc: Evolved was published by Ndemic Creations, developed by Ndemic Creations. See Ndemic Creations's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Plague Inc: Evolved released?: Plague Inc: Evolved was released in 2016.
How many reviews does Plague Inc: Evolved have on Steam?: Plague Inc: Evolved has 64,888 Steam reviews, of which 94% are positive.
Is Plague Inc: Evolved worth playing?: Steam players rate Plague Inc: Evolved 94% positive across 64,888 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Plague Inc: Evolved can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Casual titles such as Project Zomboid, Game Dev Tycoon, Golf It!, 911 Operator, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Ndemic Creations's other releases and Ndemic Creations's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Plague Inc: Evolved sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Plague Inc: Evolved page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Casual game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.