How much revenue did Reshaping Mars make?

$57k–$153k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Reshaping Mars sell?

Q: How many copies did Reshaping Mars sell?

21k to 34k copies, based on its 833 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 21k–34k; $57k–$153k after Steam's cut $103k–$235k before Steam's cut; from 833 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 Reshaping Mars and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Reshaping Mars's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–2.8M

best case 3.0M (Manor Lords)

Games like Reshaping Mars

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–2.8M copies

≈ $13.9M–$33.6M after Steam's cut

from ~35k 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: Manor Lords at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $25.3M–$68.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 23k reviews in their first month; the range was 17k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 to 2024, and 2 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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Against the Storm 2023	Est. copies ≈ 934k–1.5M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.7M–$20.7M after Steam's cut $14.0M–$31.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	38k reviews Very Positive	StrategyCity Builder
Age of Empires® III (2007) 2012	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	32k reviews Very Positive	StrategyRTS
Surviving Mars 2018	Est. copies ≈ 889k–1.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	29k reviews Mostly Positive	Colony Sim City Builder
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Northgard: Definitive Edition 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.1M–3.4M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $20.1M–$54.1M after Steam's cut $36.6M–$83.2M before Steam's cut	$34.99	69k reviews Very Positive	StrategyCity Builder
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