How much revenue did Cloud Gardens make?

$284k–$762k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cloud Gardens sell?

Q: How many copies did Cloud Gardens sell?

57k to 93k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–93k; $284k–$762k after Steam's cut $516k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Cloud Gardens and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cloud Gardens's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 81k–411k

best case 3.7M (Planet Zoo)

Games like Cloud Gardens

A typical game among these

≈ 81k–411k copies

≈ $431k–$2.1M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Best case: Planet Zoo at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $34.9M–$93.8M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 120 to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Nature (7 of 8) and Sandbox (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Management + Realistic + City Builder; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 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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Planet Zoo 2019	Est. copies ≈ 2.8M–4.6M 20x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.9M–$93.8M after Steam's cut $63.4M–$144.3M before Steam's cut	$44.99	98k reviews Very Positive	Management Simulation
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