How much revenue did How To Build Your Igloo make?

$428–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did How To Build Your Igloo sell?

Q: How many copies did How To Build Your Igloo sell?

223 to 363 copies, based on its 9 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 223–363; $428–$1k after Steam's cut $779–$2k before Steam's cut; from 9 reviews (9 user reviews); Only 9 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 How To Build Your Igloo and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including How To Build Your Igloo's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 614k–814k

best case 965k (Dorfromantik)

Games like How To Build Your Igloo

A typical game among these

≈ 614k–814k copies

≈ $3.7M–$5.2M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

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

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dorfromantik at ≈ 735k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Puzzle (7 of 8) and Exploration (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + City Builder, priced around $14.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2024, and 1 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 38 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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