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How many copies did Retreat To Enen sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 10k–16k
$69k–$185k after Steam's cut $125k–$284k before Steam's cut
from 403 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 Retreat To Enen and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Retreat To Enen's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.9M
best case 6.7M (Starbound)
Games like Retreat To Enen

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–1.9M copies

≈ $16.5M–$21.3M after Steam's cut

from ~38k 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: Starbound at ≈ 5.1M–8.3M copies, ≈ $21.1M–$56.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 20k reviews in their first month; the range was 19k to 39k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Open World (5 of 8) and Survival (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox, priced around $15.
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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