How much revenue did FortressCraft Evolved! make?

$534k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FortressCraft Evolved! sell?

Q: How many copies did FortressCraft Evolved! sell?

150k to 243k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 150k–243k; $534k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $972k–$2.2M before Steam's cut; from 3k 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 FortressCraft Evolved! and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FortressCraft Evolved!'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 881k–6.2M

best case 16.0M (Palworld)

Games like FortressCraft Evolved!

A typical game among these

≈ 881k–6.2M copies

≈ $6.2M–$81.0M after Steam's cut

from ~68k 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: Palworld at ≈ 12.2M–19.8M copies, ≈ $100.5M–$270.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 469k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (7 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $30.
When they shipped: 4 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this genre is actively shipping.

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 36 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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