How much revenue did Outlanders make?

$35k–$94k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Outlanders sell?

Q: How many copies did Outlanders sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 515 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $35k–$94k after Steam's cut $64k–$145k before Steam's cut; from 515 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 Outlanders and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Outlanders's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 311k–799k

best case 3.7M (Planet Zoo)

Games like Outlanders

A typical game among these

≈ 311k–799k copies

≈ $1.9M–$7.2M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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.

Best case: Planet Zoo at ≈ 2.8M–4.6M copies, ≈ $34.9M–$93.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and Building (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Simulation, priced around $45.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 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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