How much revenue did Core Keeper make?

$9.3M–$24.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Core Keeper sell?

Q: How many copies did Core Keeper sell?

1.7M to 2.7M copies, based on its 68k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.7M–2.7M; $9.3M–$24.9M after Steam's cut $16.9M–$38.4M before Steam's cut; from 68k 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 Core Keeper and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Core Keeper's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–10.4M

best case 18.3M (Valheim)

Games like Core Keeper

A typical game among these

≈ 1.7M–10.4M copies

≈ $14.1M–$117.2M after Steam's cut

from ~75k 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 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Valheim at ≈ 13.9M–22.6M copies, ≈ $114.9M–$308.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the range was 22k to 558k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (3 of 3) and Open World Survival Craft (3 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $30.
When they shipped: 3 of the 3 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Valheim 2026	Est. copies ≈ 13.9M–22.6M 7.5x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $114.9M–$308.9M after Steam's cut $208.9M–$475.2M before Steam's cut	$29.99	562k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Necesse 2025	Est. copies ≈ 727k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut $5.5M–$12.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	29k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftMultiplayer
The Planet Crafter 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.2M–$32.9M after Steam's cut $22.3M–$50.6M before Steam's cut	$23.99	75k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftBase-Building