How much revenue did Garden In! make?

$29k–$79k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Garden In! sell?

Q: How many copies did Garden In! sell?

11k to 17k copies, based on its 432 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–17k; $29k–$79k after Steam's cut $54k–$122k before Steam's cut; from 432 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 Garden In! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Garden In!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 210k–11.7M

best case 27.0M (BeamNG.drive)

Games like Garden In!

A typical game among these

≈ 210k–11.7M copies

≈ $930k–$163.3M after Steam's cut

from ~81k 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: BeamNG.drive at ≈ 20.5M–33.4M copies, ≈ $141.2M–$379.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 405 to 55k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Sandbox (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Driving, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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 61 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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