How much revenue did Making it Home make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Making it Home sell?

Q: How many copies did Making it Home sell?

992 to 2k copies, based on its 40 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 992–2k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 40 reviews (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 Making it Home and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Making it Home's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.3M–8.0M

best case 16.0M (Palworld)

Games like Making it Home

A typical game among these

≈ 2.3M–8.0M copies

≈ $21.7M–$113.1M after Steam's cut

from ~116k 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: Palworld at ≈ 12.2M–19.8M copies, ≈ $100.5M–$270.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 38k reviews in their first month; the range was 11k to 469k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (6 of 8) and Open World (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $30.
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 36 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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