How much revenue did Blockland make?

$956k–$2.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Blockland sell?

Q: How many copies did Blockland sell?

348k to 565k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 348k–565k; $956k–$2.6M after Steam's cut $1.7M–$4.0M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Blockland and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Blockland's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29k–964k

best case 1.9M (Brick Rigs)

Games like Blockland

A typical game among these

≈ 29k–964k copies

≈ $3.5M–$10.1M after Steam's cut

from ~4k reviews

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

5 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Brick Rigs at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $8.2M–$22.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the range was 364 to 32k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (7 of 8) and Sandbox (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Destruction, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2023, 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 70 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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