How much revenue did Amber Isle make?

$361k–$971k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Amber Isle sell?

Q: How many copies did Amber Isle sell?

53k to 85k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 53k–85k; $361k–$971k after Steam's cut $657k–$1.5M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Amber Isle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Amber Isle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14k–8.4M

best case 35.2M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like Amber Isle

A typical game among these

≈ 14k–8.4M copies

≈ $78k–$86.0M after Steam's cut

from ~109k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.8M–43.5M copies, ≈ $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 153k reviews in their first month.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dinosaurs (5 of 8) and Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2025, and 1 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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Schedule I 2025	Est. copies ≈ 7.9M–12.8M 2.9x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $43.4M–$116.6M after Steam's cut $78.8M–$179.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	318k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Simulation Co-op
ARK: Survival Evolved 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26.8M–43.5M 7.1x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut $200.7M–$456.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	779k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
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