How much revenue did Terraformers make?

$512k–$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; $512k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $931k–$2.1M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Terraformers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Terraformers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–3.2M

best case 23.0M (No Man's Sky)

Games like Terraformers

A typical game among these

≈ 2.2M–3.2M copies

≈ $17.1M–$25.2M after Steam's cut

from ~68k 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: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.5M–28.5M copies, ≈ $289.3M–$777.8M 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 41k reviews in their first month; the range was 35k to 327k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (6 of 8) and Open World Survival Craft (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival, priced around $45.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 3 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 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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