How much revenue did Timberborn make?

$10.0M–$26.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Timberborn sell?

Q: How many copies did Timberborn sell?

1.0M to 1.7M copies, based on its 42k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.0M–1.7M; $10.0M–$26.9M after Steam's cut $18.2M–$41.4M before Steam's cut; from 42k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Timberborn and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Timberborn's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 464k–972k

best case 1.4M (Kingdoms and Castles)

Games like Timberborn

A typical game among these

≈ 464k–972k copies

≈ $4.0M–$7.5M after Steam's cut

from ~13k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Kingdoms and Castles at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $6.0M–$16.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 345 reviews in their first month; the range was 125 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (7 of 8) and Colony Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Colony Sim, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 2 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 43 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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Kingdoms and Castles 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.8M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $6.0M–$16.0M after Steam's cut $10.8M–$24.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	32k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Colony Sim
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