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How many copies did Island Cities - Jigsaw Puzzle sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 6k–10k
$3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before Steam's cut
from 246 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 Island Cities - Jigsaw Puzzle and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Island Cities - Jigsaw Puzzle's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 197k–728k
best case 965k (Dorfromantik)
Games like Island Cities - Jigsaw Puzzle

A typical game among these

≈ 197k–728k copies

≈ $820k–$2.9M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Dorfromantik at ≈ 735k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like
About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 15k.
The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Puzzle (5 of 8) and City Builder (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + City Builder, priced around $14.
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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