How much revenue did Preserve make?

$67k–$180k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Preserve sell?

Q: How many copies did Preserve sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 788 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $67k–$180k after Steam's cut $122k–$278k before Steam's cut; from 788 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 Preserve and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Preserve's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–3k

best case 288k (Terra Nil)

Games like Preserve

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–3k copies

≈ $2k–$12k after Steam's cut

from ~39 reviews

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

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Terra Nil at ≈ 219k–356k copies, ≈ $1.5M–$4.1M 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 30 reviews in their first month; the range was 17 to 2k.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (8 of 8) and Nature (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Nature, priced around $21. The breakout hits carry Nature + Adventure + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 43 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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