How much revenue did Fragment: A Story in Growing make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fragment: A Story in Growing sell?

Q: How many copies did Fragment: A Story in Growing sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 48 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$18k before Steam's cut; from 48 reviews (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 Fragment: A Story in Growing and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fragment: A Story in Growing's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 68k–262k

best case 489k (Big Ambitions)

Games like Fragment: A Story in Growing

A typical game among these

≈ 68k–262k copies

≈ $372k–$3.5M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Big Ambitions at ≈ 372k–605k copies, ≈ $2.7M–$7.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 155 reviews in their first month; the range was 19 to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Economy (8 of 8) and Life Sim (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Economy, priced around $26.
When they shipped: Only 2 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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