How much revenue did Memetric: Final Lifeforms make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Memetric: Final Lifeforms sell?

Q: How many copies did Memetric: Final Lifeforms sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 18 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 Memetric: Final Lifeforms and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Memetric: Final Lifeforms's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–81k

best case 9.9M (RimWorld)

Games like Memetric: Final Lifeforms

A typical game among these

≈ 23k–81k copies

≈ $117k–$504k after Steam's cut

from ~702 reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: RimWorld at ≈ 7.6M–12.3M copies, ≈ $72.7M–$195.4M 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 398 reviews in their first month; the range was 2 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (5 of 8) and Colony Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Survival + Management + Building; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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 79 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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RimWorld 2018	Est. copies ≈ 7.6M–12.3M 354x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $72.7M–$195.4M after Steam's cut $132.2M–$300.7M before Steam's cut	$34.99	249k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
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