How much revenue did Natural Instincts: European Forest make?

$20k–$54k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Natural Instincts: European Forest sell?

Q: How many copies did Natural Instincts: European Forest sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 297 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $20k–$54k after Steam's cut $37k–$84k before Steam's cut; from 297 reviews (Mixed)

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 Natural Instincts: European Forest and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Natural Instincts: European Forest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 148k–1.0M

best case 6.0M (SPORE™)

Games like Natural Instincts: European Forest

A typical game among these

≈ 148k–1.0M copies

≈ $872k–$14.5M 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SPORE™ at ≈ 4.6M–7.5M copies, ≈ $25.3M–$68.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 554 reviews in their first month; the range was 212 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with God Game + Open World, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2023, and none of them 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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SPORE™ Galactic Adventures 2009	Est. copies ≈ 492k–799k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.7M–$7.3M after Steam's cut $4.9M–$11.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	8k reviews Very Positive	SimulationAction