How much revenue did Dino Nest make?

$9k–$25k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dino Nest sell?

Q: How many copies did Dino Nest sell?

7k to 11k copies, based on its 268 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–11k; $9k–$25k after Steam's cut $17k–$38k before Steam's cut; from 268 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 Dino Nest and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dino Nest's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 42k–127k

best case 2.2M (Jurassic World Evolution)

Games like Dino Nest

A typical game among these

≈ 42k–127k copies

≈ $356k–$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 936 reviews in their first month; the range was 99 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Management (8 of 8) and Building (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dinosaurs + Building, priced around $52. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Strategy + City Builder; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, 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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