How much revenue did Microtopia make?

$133k–$357k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Microtopia sell?

Q: How many copies did Microtopia sell?

24k to 39k copies, based on its 974 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–39k; $133k–$357k after Steam's cut $241k–$549k before Steam's cut; from 974 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 Microtopia and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Microtopia's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 126k–142k

best case 1.2M (Against the Storm)

Games like Microtopia

A typical game among these

≈ 126k–142k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Against the Storm at ≈ 934k–1.5M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.7M 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 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 808 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (7 of 8) and City Builder (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder, priced around $30.
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 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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