How much revenue did Farmer's Life make?

$381k–$1.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Farmer's Life sell?

Q: How many copies did Farmer's Life sell?

69k to 113k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 69k–113k; $381k–$1.0M after Steam's cut $692k–$1.6M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 Farmer's Life and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Farmer's Life's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 65k–287k

best case 16.0M (Palworld)

Games like Farmer's Life

A typical game among these

≈ 65k–287k copies

≈ $455k–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Agriculture (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Palworld at ≈ 12.2M–19.8M copies, ≈ $100.5M–$270.1M 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 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 661 to 469k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Agriculture (3 of 8) and Crafting (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Creature Collector + Online Co-Op + Co-op; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 6 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 38 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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