How much revenue did Planet Barren Objective make?

$265–$713 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Planet Barren Objective sell?

Q: How many copies did Planet Barren Objective sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $265–$713 after Steam's cut $481–$1k before Steam's cut; from 13 reviews (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 Planet Barren Objective and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Planet Barren Objective's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–88k

best case 677k (Kingdom: New Lands)

Games like Planet Barren Objective

A typical game among these

≈ 1k–88k copies

≈ $5k–$534k after Steam's cut

from ~259 reviews

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

3 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Kingdom: New Lands at ≈ 516k–839k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 2k reviews in their first month.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Colony Sim (7 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Survival, priced around $15.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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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