How much revenue did Farworld Pioneers make?

$72k–$193k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Farworld Pioneers sell?

Q: How many copies did Farworld Pioneers sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 702 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $72k–$193k after Steam's cut $130k–$297k before Steam's cut; from 702 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Farworld Pioneers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Farworld Pioneers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 322k–8.1M

best case 35.2M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like Farworld Pioneers

A typical game among these

≈ 322k–8.1M copies

≈ $1.6M–$47.3M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.8M–43.5M copies, ≈ $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 68 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World Survival Craft (6 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2026, 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 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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