How much revenue did House Builder make?

$354k–$951k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did House Builder sell?

Q: How many copies did House Builder sell?

64k to 105k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 64k–105k; $354k–$951k after Steam's cut $643k–$1.5M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly 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 House Builder and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including House Builder's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 583k–924k

best case 1.7M (Medieval Dynasty)

Games like House Builder

A typical game among these

≈ 583k–924k copies

≈ $5.0M–$14.0M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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 Simulation (4 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: Medieval Dynasty at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $12.5M–$33.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 11k reviews in their first month; the range was 6k to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (4 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Crafting + Building, priced around $35.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 2 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 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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