How much revenue did Node Farm make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Node Farm sell?

Q: How many copies did Node Farm sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 80 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut; from 80 reviews (Very 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 Node Farm and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Node Farm's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 910k–1.3M

best case 3.0M (Manor Lords)

Games like Node Farm

A typical game among these

≈ 910k–1.3M copies

≈ $9.0M–$14.1M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: 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 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 17k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share City Builder (5 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation, priced around $29. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Driving + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: 5 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 52 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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