How much revenue did Factory Islands make?

$272–$731 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Factory Islands sell?

Q: How many copies did Factory Islands sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $272–$731 after Steam's cut $494–$1k before Steam's cut; from 16 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 Factory Islands and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Factory Islands's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 155k–409k

best case 627k (A Little to the Left)

Games like Factory Islands

A typical game among these

≈ 155k–409k copies

≈ $216k–$3.3M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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: A Little to the Left at ≈ 478k–777k copies, ≈ $2.0M–$5.3M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 579 reviews in their first month; the range was 117 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cozy (6 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Wholesome, priced around $15.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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