How much revenue did Sandwalkers make?

$77k–$207k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sandwalkers sell?

Q: How many copies did Sandwalkers sell?

14k to 23k copies, based on its 566 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–23k; $77k–$207k after Steam's cut $140k–$319k before Steam's cut; from 566 reviews (Mostly 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 Sandwalkers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sandwalkers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 635–7k

best case 236k (Home Behind 2)

Games like Sandwalkers

A typical game among these

≈ 635–7k copies

≈ $3k–$39k after Steam's cut

from ~58 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Home Behind 2 at ≈ 180k–292k copies, ≈ $988k–$2.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 22 reviews in their first month; the range was 4 to 5k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Survival (6 of 8) and Post-apocalyptic (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Simulation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Adventure + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 36 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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