How much revenue did Spirit of the Island make?

$194k–$521k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Spirit of the Island sell?

Q: How many copies did Spirit of the Island sell?

47k to 76k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 47k–76k; $194k–$521k after Steam's cut $352k–$802k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mixed)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Spirit of the Island out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Spirit of the Island's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163k–200k

best case 56.6M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Spirit of the Island

The middle of these games

≈ 163k–200k copies

≈ $1.4M–$1.6M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.2M–70.1M copies, ≈ $177.9M–$478.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 34k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Life Sim (8 of 8) and Farming Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2026, and 2 of your 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 52 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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