How many copies did Dinosaur Fossil Hunter: Prologue sell?

18k to 28k copies, based on its 706 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Dinosaur Fossil Hunter: Prologue make?

Dinosaur Fossil Hunter: Prologue is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Dinosaur Fossil Hunter: Prologue?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 18k–28k; from 706 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 Dinosaur Fossil Hunter: Prologue and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dinosaur Fossil Hunter: Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 33k–134k

best case 2.2M (Jurassic World Evolution)

Games like Dinosaur Fossil Hunter: Prologue

A typical game among these

≈ 33k–134k copies

≈ $252k–$1.0M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Jurassic World Evolution at ≈ 1.7M–2.7M copies, ≈ $20.8M–$55.9M 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 972 reviews in their first month; the range was 99 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (7 of 8) and Management (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $52.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2022. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 38 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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