How many copies did Planet Explorers sell?

284k to 461k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Planet Explorers make?

Planet Explorers is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Planet Explorers?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 284k–461k; from 7k reviews (Mixed)

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 Explorers and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Planet Explorers's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 574k–773k

best case 40.1M (Project Zomboid)

Games like Planet Explorers

A typical game among these

≈ 574k–773k copies

≈ $3.7M–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Project Zomboid at ≈ 30.5M–49.6M copies, ≈ $209.9M–$564.4M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (8 of 8) and Sandbox (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2020, and none of them 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).

Similar games

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Life is Feudal: Your Own 2015	Est. copies ≈ 589k–957k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $3.2M–$8.7M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	12k reviews Mixed	Open World Survival CraftMedieval
TerraTech 2018	Est. copies ≈ 761k–1.2M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.2M–$14.1M after Steam's cut $9.5M–$21.6M before Steam's cut	$24.99	25k reviews Very Positive	BuildingSandbox
Project Zomboid 2013	Est. copies ≈ 30.5M–49.6M 34x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $209.9M–$564.4M after Steam's cut $381.6M–$868.2M before Steam's cut	$24.99	483k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalZombies
Space Engineers 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.9M–6.3M 9.3x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.3M–$57.3M after Steam's cut $38.7M–$88.1M before Steam's cut	$19.99	135k reviews Very Positive	SpaceSandbox
Craftopia 2020	Est. copies ≈ 502k–816k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.5M–$9.3M after Steam's cut $6.3M–$14.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	20k reviews Mostly Positive	Open WorldCrafting
Conan Exiles Enhanced 2018	Est. copies ≈ 3.6M–5.8M 8.2x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $39.3M–$105.8M after Steam's cut $71.5M–$162.7M before Steam's cut	$39.99	118k reviews Mostly Positive	SurvivalOpen World
Mist Survival 2018	Est. copies ≈ 437k–711k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.6M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.5M before Steam's cut	$10.99	14k reviews Mostly Positive	SurvivalZombies
Dark and Light 2017	Est. copies ≈ 407k–662k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.0M–$5.4M after Steam's cut $3.7M–$8.3M before Steam's cut	$17.99	12k reviews Mixed	Open WorldSurvival