How much revenue did Roots of Pacha make?

$780k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Roots of Pacha sell?

Q: How many copies did Roots of Pacha sell?

114k to 185k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 114k–185k; $780k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before Steam's cut; from 5k 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 Roots of Pacha and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Roots of Pacha's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 539k–1.3M

best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Roots of Pacha

A typical game among these

≈ 539k–1.3M copies

≈ $3.0M–$11.1M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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 Farming Sim (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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M 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 532 to 43k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Farming Sim (4 of 8) and Crafting (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Agriculture + Multiplayer + Life Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 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 52 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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