How much revenue did We Are The Caretakers make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did We Are The Caretakers sell?

Q: How many copies did We Are The Caretakers sell?

893 to 1k copies, based on its 36 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 893–1k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 36 reviews (Mostly 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 We Are The Caretakers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including We Are The Caretakers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–20k

best case 40k (Master of Magic)

Games like We Are The Caretakers

A typical game among these

≈ 4k–20k copies

≈ $14k–$185k after Steam's cut

from ~191 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Master of Magic at ≈ 31k–50k copies, ≈ $336k–$904k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 59 reviews in their first month; the range was 10 to 456.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8) and Strategy RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + 4X, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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 52 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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