How much revenue did Monsters Domain make?

$39k–$105k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Monsters Domain sell?

Q: How many copies did Monsters Domain sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 287 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $39k–$105k after Steam's cut $71k–$162k before Steam's cut; from 287 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 Monsters Domain and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Monsters Domain's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10.1M–29.2M

best case 56.0M (Rust)

Games like Monsters Domain

A typical game among these

≈ 10.1M–29.2M copies

≈ $112.4M–$291.3M after Steam's cut

from ~371k 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: Rust at ≈ 42.7M–69.3M copies, ≈ $469.3M–$1261.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 178k reviews in their first month; the range was 122k to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (8 of 8) and Crafting (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2012 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 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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Rust 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.3M 3.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $469.3M–$1261.8M after Steam's cut $853.3M–$1941.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	1.4M reviews Very Positive	SurvivalCrafting