How much revenue did Tiny Civilization make?

$30k–$80k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tiny Civilization sell?

Q: How many copies did Tiny Civilization sell?

54k to 88k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 54k–88k; $30k–$80k after Steam's cut $54k–$123k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Tiny Civilization and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tiny Civilization's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 131k–362k

best case 617k (Empires of the Undergrowth)

Games like Tiny Civilization

A typical game among these

≈ 131k–362k copies

≈ $1.3M–$2.7M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: Empires of the Undergrowth at ≈ 470k–764k copies, ≈ $3.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the range was 855 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (5 of 8) and God Game (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + City Builder, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2025, and 3 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 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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