How much revenue did Terraformers make?

$511k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Terraformers sell?

Q: How many copies did Terraformers sell?

93k to 151k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 93k–151k; $511k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $929k–$2.1M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Terraformers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Terraformers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–3.2M

best case 22.7M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Terraformers

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–3.2M copies

≈ $16.7M–$25.2M after Steam's cut

from ~66k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.3M–28.1M copies, ≈ $285.6M–$767.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 41k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 35k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (6 of 8) and Open World Survival Craft (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival, priced around $45.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2024, and 3 of your 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 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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