How much revenue did Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife make?

$58k–$155k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife sell?

Q: How many copies did Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife sell?

10k to 17k copies, based on its 422 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–17k; $58k–$155k after Steam's cut $105k–$238k before Steam's cut; from 422 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 Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 168k–197k

best case 57.1M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Horticular: Build a Garden, Attract Wildlife

A typical game among these

≈ 168k–197k copies

≈ $870k–$1.7M after Steam's cut

from ~6k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.5M–70.7M copies, ≈ $179.4M–$482.4M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Life Sim (7 of 8) and Farming Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $25. The breakout hits carry Farming Sim + Relaxing; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2016 to 2025, and 3 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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