How much revenue did Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch make?

$201k–$539k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch sell?

Q: How many copies did Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch sell?

24k to 40k copies, based on its 981 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–40k; $201k–$539k after Steam's cut $365k–$830k before Steam's cut; from 981 reviews (Mixed)

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 Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 22.4M–25.3M

best case 27.5M (Fallout 4)

Games like Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch

A typical game among these

≈ 22.4M–25.3M copies

≈ $148.2M–$373.0M after Steam's cut

from ~422k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Fallout 4 at ≈ 21.0M–34.1M copies, ≈ $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 20 reviews in their first month; the range was 9 to 179.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (8 of 8) and Open World (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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 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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Fallout 4 2015	Est. copies ≈ 21.0M–34.1M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $115.2M–$309.7M after Steam's cut $209.4M–$476.5M before Steam's cut	$19.99	429k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldPost-apocalyptic
The WILDS 2022	Est. copies ≈ 15k–25k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $21k–$57k after Steam's cut $38k–$88k before Steam's cut	$4.99	622 reviews Mostly Positive	Early AccessNature
Badiya: Desert Survival 2016	Est. copies ≈ 14k–23k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $78k–$210k after Steam's cut $142k–$324k before Steam's cut	$19.99	342 reviews Mixed	Open World Survival CraftProcedural Generation
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No Man's Sky 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17.5M–28.5M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $289.3M–$777.8M after Steam's cut $526.0M–$1196.6M before Steam's cut	$59.99	422k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldOpen World Survival Craft
Horse Riding Deluxe 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $7k–$19k after Steam's cut $13k–$29k before Steam's cut	$19.99	45 reviews Mostly Positive	HorsesExploration
Wilderless: Meadowfell 2025	Est. copies ≈ 670–1k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut	$7.99	27 reviews Positive	Open WorldCasual
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