How much revenue did Terraforming Earth make?

$2k–$5k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Terraforming Earth sell?

Q: How many copies did Terraforming Earth sell?

645 to 1k copies, based on its 26 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 645–1k; $2k–$5k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 26 reviews (Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Terraforming Earth and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Terraforming Earth's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 94k–145k

best case 13.9M (R.E.P.O.)

Games like Terraforming Earth

A typical game among these

≈ 94k–145k copies

≈ $949k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Rogue-like (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: R.E.P.O. at ≈ 10.6M–17.2M copies, ≈ $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 14 to 67k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Rogue-like (3 of 8) and First-Person (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Comedy, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Horror + Online Co-Op + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 3 of the 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 70 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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Sir, You Are Being Hunted 2014	Est. copies ≈ 219k–355k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	Survival Stealth
R.E.P.O. 2025	Est. copies ≈ 10.6M–17.2M 123x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut $52.9M–$120.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	427k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorOnline Co-Op
Phantom Brigade 2023	Est. copies ≈ 114k–186k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $942k–$2.5M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$3.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	5k reviews Very Positive	Turn-Based TacticsTactical RPG
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30XX 2023	Est. copies ≈ 70k–114k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $385k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $700k–$1.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Action RoguelikeSide Scroller
Deliver Us Mars 2023	Est. copies ≈ 75k–122k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $621k–$1.7M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	3k reviews Mostly Positive	Story RichSci-fi
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