How much revenue did Tribe: Primitive Builder make?

$110k–$295k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tribe: Primitive Builder sell?

Q: How many copies did Tribe: Primitive Builder sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 805 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $110k–$295k after Steam's cut $200k–$454k before Steam's cut; from 805 reviews (Very 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 Tribe: Primitive Builder and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tribe: Primitive Builder's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 79k–555k

best case 1.4M (Timberborn)

Games like Tribe: Primitive Builder

A typical game among these

≈ 79k–555k copies

≈ $374k–$7.4M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Timberborn at ≈ 1.0M–1.7M copies, ≈ $10.0M–$26.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 405 to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Automation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Voxel, priced around $35.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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