How much revenue did Offworld Trading Company make?

$2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Offworld Trading Company sell?

Q: How many copies did Offworld Trading Company sell?

238k to 387k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 238k–387k; $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut $3.6M–$8.1M 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 Offworld Trading Company and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Offworld Trading Company's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 485k–635k

best case 3.0M (Manor Lords)

Games like Offworld Trading Company

A typical game among these

≈ 485k–635k copies

≈ $1.9M–$5.8M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Building (2 of 8), so its genre is hard to place.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Manor Lords at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $25.3M–$68.1M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (2 of 8) and City Builder (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Education, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Management; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2006 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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