How much revenue did Project Of Cooling The Earth make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Project Of Cooling The Earth sell?

Q: How many copies did Project Of Cooling The Earth sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 124 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$17k before Steam's cut; from 124 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 Project Of Cooling The Earth and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Project Of Cooling The Earth's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 236–402k

best case 5.5M (Frostpunk)

Games like Project Of Cooling The Earth

A typical game among these

≈ 236–402k copies

≈ $412–$7.6M after Steam's cut

from ~56 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

2 of the 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Resource Management (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: Frostpunk at ≈ 4.2M–6.8M copies, ≈ $34.5M–$92.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

The games that made it here had under 332 reviews in their first month.

Games with under about 100 reviews in month one almost never recover.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Resource Management (4 of 8) and Interactive Fiction (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Survival, priced around $30.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 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 38 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Frostpunk 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M 2460x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.5M–$92.8M after Steam's cut $62.8M–$142.8M before Steam's cut	$29.99	138k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Survival
AI Roguelite 2023	Est. copies ≈ 16k–25k 11x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $64k–$173k after Steam's cut $117k–$266k before Steam's cut	$14.99	628 reviews Very Positive	RPGText-Based
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M 848x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $16.2M–$43.5M after Steam's cut $29.4M–$66.9M before Steam's cut	$49.99	47k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Choices MatterStory Rich
Harmonium 2018	Est. copies ≈ 182–296 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $250–$672 after Steam's cut $454–$1k before Steam's cut	$4.99	6 reviews 6 user reviews	IndieStory Rich
Lotus Reverie: First Nexus 2021	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before Steam's cut	$15.99	60 reviews Very Positive	StrategyCasual
Pathogen 2022	Est. copies ≈ 50–81 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $83–$221 after Steam's cut $150–$340 before Steam's cut	$5.99	2 reviews 2 user reviews	Early AccessStrategy
Dust Courier 2024	Est. copies ≈ 174–282 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $143–$384 after Steam's cut $260–$590 before Steam's cut	$2.99	7 reviews 7 user reviews	Post-apocalypticPixel Graphics
Survivor's guilt 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$6k before Steam's cut	$3.99	52 reviews Very Positive	SurvivalResource Management