How much revenue did SAND LAND make?

$556k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SAND LAND sell?

Q: How many copies did SAND LAND sell?

34k to 55k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 34k–55k; $556k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $1.0M–$2.3M before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 SAND LAND and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SAND LAND's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–6.3M

best case 6.2M (DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED)

Games like SAND LAND

A typical game among these

≈ 2.2M–6.3M copies

≈ $29.2M–$72.0M after Steam's cut

from ~83k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Fantasy (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: DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED at ≈ 4.8M–7.7M copies, ≈ $52.3M–$140.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the range was 9k to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fantasy (4 of 8) and Open World (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Souls-like + Dark Fantasy, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 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 70 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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FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $17.0M–$45.8M after Steam's cut $31.0M–$70.5M before Steam's cut	$34.99	58k reviews Very Positive	RPGOpen World
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.8M–7.7M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $52.3M–$140.6M after Steam's cut $95.1M–$216.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	156k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
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