How much revenue did Farlanders make?

$61k–$164k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Farlanders sell?

Q: How many copies did Farlanders sell?

15k to 24k copies, based on its 598 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 15k–24k; $61k–$164k after Steam's cut $111k–$253k before Steam's cut; from 598 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 Farlanders and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Farlanders's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–109k

best case 635k (ISLANDERS)

Games like Farlanders

A typical game among these

≈ 14k–109k copies

≈ $200k–$738k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ISLANDERS at ≈ 483k–786k copies, ≈ $663k–$1.8M 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 275 reviews in their first month; the range was 90 to 983.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (7 of 8) and Colony Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Building, priced around $5. The breakout hits carry Relaxing + Puzzle + Indie; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2025, and 1 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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