How much revenue did Cultivation Fantasy make?

$5k–$14k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cultivation Fantasy sell?

Q: How many copies did Cultivation Fantasy sell?

4k to 6k copies, based on its 149 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4k–6k; $5k–$14k after Steam's cut $9k–$21k before Steam's cut; from 149 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 Cultivation Fantasy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cultivation Fantasy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27k–87k

best case 93k (Niffelheim)

Games like Cultivation Fantasy

A typical game among these

≈ 27k–87k copies

≈ $157k–$568k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Niffelheim at ≈ 71k–115k copies, ≈ $390k–$1.0M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 543 reviews in their first month; the range was 150 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (6 of 8) and City Builder (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Mythology + Co-op, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 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 79 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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