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How many copies did Drill Deal – Oil Tycoon sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 3k–5k
$12k–$33k after Steam's cut $22k–$50k before Steam's cut
from 119 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 Drill Deal – Oil Tycoon and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Drill Deal – Oil Tycoon's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23.7M–62.4M
best case 56.0M (Rust)
Games like Drill Deal – Oil Tycoon

A typical game among these

≈ 23.7M–62.4M copies

≈ $222.9M–$455.4M after Steam's cut

from ~814k 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: Rust at ≈ 42.7M–69.3M copies, ≈ $469.3M–$1261.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Open World (6 of 8) and Open World Survival Craft (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2006 to 2024, and 1 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 79 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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