How much revenue did Fae Farm make?

$736k–$2.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fae Farm sell?

Q: How many copies did Fae Farm sell?

89k to 145k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 89k–145k; $736k–$2.0M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before Steam's cut; from 4k reviews (Mostly 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 Fae Farm and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fae Farm's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2k–42k

best case 90k (Wylde Flowers)

Games like Fae Farm

A typical game among these

≈ 2k–42k copies

≈ $16k–$347k after Steam's cut

from ~392 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: Wylde Flowers at ≈ 69k–112k copies, ≈ $472k–$1.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 181 reviews in their first month; the range was 20 to 622.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (5 of 8) and Cozy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Cozy + Simulation, priced around $25.
When they shipped: 6 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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