How much revenue did Saffron Fields make?

$872–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Saffron Fields sell?

Q: How many copies did Saffron Fields sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $872–$2k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 16 reviews (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 Saffron Fields and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Saffron Fields's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 167k–276k

best case 1.2M (ShellShock Live)

Games like Saffron Fields

A typical game among these

≈ 167k–276k copies

≈ $904k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Tanks (4 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: ShellShock Live at ≈ 883k–1.4M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.5M 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 2 to 18k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tanks (4 of 8) and Arcade (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tanks + Turn-Based, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Shooter + 2D; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 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 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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