How much revenue did Amber Trail make?

$817–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Amber Trail sell?

Q: How many copies did Amber Trail sell?

595 to 967 copies, based on its 24 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 595–967; $817–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before Steam's cut; from 24 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 Amber Trail and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Amber Trail's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 163–619

best case 15.8M (Bloons TD 6)

Games like Amber Trail

A typical game among these

≈ 163–619 copies

≈ $899–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~9 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: Bloons TD 6 at ≈ 12.0M–19.6M copies, ≈ $46.3M–$124.5M 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 6 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 13.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (6 of 8) and Exploration (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Trading + Simulation, priced around $14. The breakout hits carry Strategy + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 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 79 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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