How much revenue did Earthling's Undertaking make?

$75k–$203k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Earthling's Undertaking sell?

Q: How many copies did Earthling's Undertaking sell?

25k to 41k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–41k; $75k–$203k after Steam's cut $137k–$312k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Mixed)

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 Earthling's Undertaking and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Earthling's Undertaking's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 96k–126k

best case 7.3M (鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal)

Games like Earthling's Undertaking

A typical game among these

≈ 96k–126k copies

≈ $683k–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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 Choose Your Own Adventure (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: 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $30.6M–$82.4M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 197 to 208k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Choose Your Own Adventure (3 of 8) and Open World (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Management + Tactical RPG; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2023, 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 52 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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