How much revenue did Dorfromantik make?

$2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dorfromantik sell?

Q: How many copies did Dorfromantik sell?

735k to 1.2M copies, based on its 30k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 735k–1.2M; $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.7M before Steam's cut; from 30k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Dorfromantik and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dorfromantik's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 83k–147k

best case 796k (Mini Motorways)

Games like Dorfromantik

A typical game among these

≈ 83k–147k copies

≈ $662k–$836k 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.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Mini Motorways at ≈ 607k–986k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.5M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Experimental + Building, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Relaxing + City Builder + Minimalist; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 61 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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Cloud Gardens 2021	Est. copies ≈ 57k–93k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $284k–$762k after Steam's cut $516k–$1.2M before Steam's cut	$17.99	2k reviews Very Positive	NatureSandbox
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