How much revenue did Terra Nil make?

$1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Terra Nil sell?

Q: How many copies did Terra Nil sell?

219k to 356k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 219k–356k; $1.5M–$4.1M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.2M before Steam's cut; from 9k reviews (Very 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 Terra Nil and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Terra Nil's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–67k

best case 76k (Reus 2)

Games like Terra Nil

A typical game among these

≈ 8k–67k copies

≈ $31k–$464k 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: Reus 2 at ≈ 58k–94k copies, ≈ $396k–$1.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 405 reviews in their first month; the range was 23 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with God Game + Colony Sim, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 2 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 43 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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