How much revenue did Imagine Earth make?

$165k–$444k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Imagine Earth sell?

Q: How many copies did Imagine Earth sell?

24k to 39k copies, based on its 970 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–39k; $165k–$444k after Steam's cut $301k–$684k before Steam's cut; from 970 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 Imagine Earth and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Imagine Earth's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 14.7M–38.1M

best case 99.7M (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege)

Games like Imagine Earth

A typical game among these

≈ 14.7M–38.1M copies

≈ $136.5M–$542.6M after Steam's cut

from ~666k 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 Co-op (4 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: Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege at ≈ 76.0M–123.4M copies.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 347k reviews in their first month; the range was 40k to 836k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Co-op (4 of 8) and Action RPG (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Tactical.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2026, and 2 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 61 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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