How much revenue did Square Farm make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Square Farm sell?

Q: How many copies did Square Farm sell?

942 to 2k copies, based on its 38 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 942–2k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before Steam's cut; from 38 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 Square Farm and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Square Farm's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 115k–509k

best case 837k (Farthest Frontier)

Games like Square Farm

A typical game among these

≈ 115k–509k copies

≈ $999k–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~11k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Crafting (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: Farthest Frontier at ≈ 638k–1.0M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 54 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Crafting (4 of 8) and Automation (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Historical + Agriculture, priced around $35.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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