How much revenue did Build Lands make?

$1k–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Build Lands sell?

Q: How many copies did Build Lands sell?

967 to 2k copies, based on its 39 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 967–2k; $1k–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before Steam's cut; from 39 reviews (Mostly 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 Build Lands and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Build Lands's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 509k–999k

best case 1.4M (Two Point Hospital)

Games like Build Lands

A typical game among these

≈ 509k–999k copies

≈ $2.8M–$6.5M after Steam's cut

from ~14k reviews

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

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Two Point Hospital at ≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies, ≈ $8.8M–$23.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 5k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 16k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (7 of 8) and City Builder (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 to 2024, 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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Stronghold: Definitive Edition 2023	Est. copies ≈ 258k–419k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.4M before Steam's cut	$14.99	10k reviews Very Positive	City BuilderStrategy
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Two Point Hospital 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.8M–$23.6M after Steam's cut $16.0M–$36.3M before Steam's cut	$29.99	35k reviews Very Positive	Simulation Management
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