How much revenue did Masterplan Tycoon make?

$61k–$164k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Masterplan Tycoon sell?

Q: How many copies did Masterplan Tycoon sell?

18k to 30k copies, based on its 744 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 18k–30k; $61k–$164k after Steam's cut $111k–$252k before the cut; from 744 reviews (Mostly Positive)

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 Masterplan Tycoon out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Masterplan Tycoon's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.5M–6.0M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Masterplan Tycoon

The middle of these games

≈ 3.5M–6.0M copies

≈ $45.1M–$74.0M after Steam's cut

from ~118k 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.

Best case: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.3M–23.2M copies, ≈ $117.6M–$316.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 26k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (6 of 8) and Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, and none of them 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 61 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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