How much revenue did Save the Reactor make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Save the Reactor sell?

Q: How many copies did Save the Reactor sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 142 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before Steam's cut; from 142 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 Save the Reactor and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Save the Reactor's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 873k–1.4M

best case 1.9M (Farming Simulator 25)

Games like Save the Reactor

A typical game among these

≈ 873k–1.4M copies

≈ $3.9M–$9.0M after Steam's cut

from ~33k 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.

Best case: Farming Simulator 25 at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $12.1M–$32.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and Time Management (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Farming Sim, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 52 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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