How much revenue did Plantera 2: Golden Acorn make?

$47k–$126k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Plantera 2: Golden Acorn sell?

Q: How many copies did Plantera 2: Golden Acorn sell?

34k to 56k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 34k–56k; $47k–$126k after Steam's cut $86k–$195k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Plantera 2: Golden Acorn and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Plantera 2: Golden Acorn's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 26k–317k

best case 484k (Rusty's Retirement)

Games like Plantera 2: Golden Acorn

A typical game among these

≈ 26k–317k copies

≈ $47k–$747k 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.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rusty's Retirement at ≈ 369k–600k copies, ≈ $709k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 274 reviews in their first month; the range was 27 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Idler (7 of 8) and Farming Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Farming Sim, priced around $7.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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