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How many copies did Planetary Delivery sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 149–242
$81–$219 after Steam's cut $148–$337 before Steam's cut
from 6 reviews (6 user reviews)
Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 456–13k
best case 27k (Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography)
Games like Planetary Delivery

A typical game among these

≈ 456–13k copies

≈ $738–$121k after Steam's cut

from ~55 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography at ≈ 20k–33k copies, ≈ $112k–$302k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
The games that made it here had under 707 reviews in their first month.
Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Education (7 of 8) and Hidden Object (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Education + Immersive Sim, priced around $20.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2020 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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