How much revenue did My life as an archeologist make?

$9k–$24k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did My life as an archeologist sell?

Q: How many copies did My life as an archeologist sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 333 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $16k–$37k before Steam's cut; from 333 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 My life as an archeologist and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including My life as an archeologist's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.6M

best case 3.3M (World of Tanks)

Games like My life as an archeologist

A typical game among these

≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies

≈ $7.6M–$26.6M after Steam's cut

from ~52k 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 8 of the similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Creature Collector (3 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: World of Tanks at ≈ 2.5M–4.1M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 51k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Creature Collector (3 of 8) and Character Customization (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tanks + Military.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2026, 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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Temtem 2022	Est. copies ≈ 975k–1.6M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut $21.9M–$49.9M before Steam's cut	$44.99	39k reviews Very Positive	Co-opMultiplayer
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