How much revenue did My Time at Sandrock make?

$7.9M–$21.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did My Time at Sandrock sell?

Q: How many copies did My Time at Sandrock sell?

722k to 1.2M copies, based on its 29k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 722k–1.2M; $7.9M–$21.3M after Steam's cut $14.4M–$32.8M before Steam's cut; from 29k 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 My Time at Sandrock and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including My Time at Sandrock's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 179k–1.0M

best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)

Games like My Time at Sandrock

A typical game among these

≈ 179k–1.0M copies

≈ $1.2M–$8.4M after Steam's cut

from ~18k 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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 532 to 34k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Farming Sim (7 of 8) and Life Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Pixel Graphics + Relaxing; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2026, 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 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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Stardew Valley 2016	Est. copies ≈ 43.5M–70.7M 57x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $179.4M–$482.4M after Steam's cut $326.2M–$742.1M before Steam's cut	$14.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Farming SimPixel Graphics
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