How much revenue did Fractal Block World make?

$77k–$206k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fractal Block World sell?

Q: How many copies did Fractal Block World sell?

40k to 65k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 40k–65k; $77k–$206k after Steam's cut $140k–$318k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Fractal Block World and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fractal Block World's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 6k–507k

best case 4.6M (S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl)

Games like Fractal Block World

A typical game among these

≈ 6k–507k copies

≈ $33k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $57.8M–$155.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 88k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Exploration (8 of 8) and FPS (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + FPS, priced around $60.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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