How much revenue did Orders of Magnitude make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Orders of Magnitude sell?

Q: How many copies did Orders of Magnitude sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 74 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before Steam's cut; from 74 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 Orders of Magnitude and predicted how it would do from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including Orders of Magnitude's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 990k–5.7M

best case 9.2M (Forza Horizon 5)

Games like Orders of Magnitude

A typical game among these

≈ 990k–5.7M copies

≈ $11.8M–$45.8M after Steam's cut

from ~37k 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 6 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Forza Horizon 5 at ≈ 7.0M–11.4M copies, ≈ $115.3M–$310.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 6) and Open World (4 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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Forza Horizon 5 2021	Est. copies ≈ 7.0M–11.4M 7.6x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $115.3M–$310.1M after Steam's cut $209.7M–$477.1M before Steam's cut	$59.99	282k reviews Very Positive	RacingOpen World
Elite Dangerous 2015	Est. copies ≈ 5.3M–8.5M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.9M–$77.8M after Steam's cut $52.6M–$119.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	108k reviews Mostly Positive	Space SimSpace
Into the Radius VR 2020	Est. copies ≈ 281k–456k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.3M–$6.2M after Steam's cut $4.2M–$9.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	11k reviews Very Positive	VRExtraction Shooter
MudRunner 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.4M–$22.5M after Steam's cut $15.2M–$34.6M before Steam's cut	$19.99	44k reviews Very Positive	OffroadSimulation
X4: Foundations 2018	Est. copies ≈ 920k–1.5M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.7M–$34.0M after Steam's cut $23.0M–$52.3M before Steam's cut	$49.99	30k reviews Mostly Positive	Space SimSimulation
X-Plane 11 2017	Est. copies ≈ 699k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.8M–$15.5M after Steam's cut $10.5M–$23.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	20k reviews Very Positive	SimulationFlight