How much revenue did Gamecraft make?

Gamecraft is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Gamecraft sell?

Q: How many copies did Gamecraft sell?

24k to 40k copies, based on its 847 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–40k; from 847 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 Gamecraft and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gamecraft's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 37k–126k

best case 256k (Mad Games Tycoon 2)

Games like Gamecraft

A typical game among these

≈ 37k–126k copies

≈ $149k–$735k after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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.

Best case: Mad Games Tycoon 2 at ≈ 195k–316k copies, ≈ $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 305 reviews in their first month; the range was 152 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Economy, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
ACTION SANDBOX 2022	Est. copies ≈ 25k–41k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $69k–$186k after Steam's cut $126k–$286k before Steam's cut	$9.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	SandboxSimulation
Kodon 2023	Est. copies ≈ 10k–16k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $67k–$180k after Steam's cut $122k–$277k before Steam's cut	$24.99	393 reviews Mixed	SimulationAnimation & Modeling
Game Corp DX 2015	Est. copies ≈ 150k–244k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $124k–$332k after Steam's cut $225k–$511k before Steam's cut	$2.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Management Simulation
Game Dev Story 2022	Est. copies ≈ 37k–61k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $93k–$249k after Steam's cut $168k–$383k before Steam's cut	$8.99	2k reviews Very Positive	ManagementBuilding
Mad Games Tycoon 2 2023	Est. copies ≈ 195k–316k 4.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	8k reviews Very Positive	ManagementEconomy
MMORPG Tycoon 2 2020	Est. copies ≈ 78k–127k 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $537k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $977k–$2.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	3k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Management
Plasma 2023	Est. copies ≈ 29k–47k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	1k reviews Very Positive	SimulationSandbox
City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins 2021	Est. copies ≈ 47k–77k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $260k–$699k after Steam's cut $473k–$1.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Very Positive	Management Simulation