How much revenue did Castaway Paradise - live among the animals make?

$117k–$315k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Castaway Paradise - live among the animals sell?

Q: How many copies did Castaway Paradise - live among the animals sell?

28k to 46k copies, based on its 583 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 28k–46k; $117k–$315k after Steam's cut $213k–$485k before Steam's cut; from 583 reviews (Mixed)

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 Castaway Paradise - live among the animals and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Castaway Paradise - live among the animals's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 72k–154k

best case 810k (Disney Dreamlight Valley)

Games like Castaway Paradise - live among the animals

A typical game among these

≈ 72k–154k copies

≈ $554k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Disney Dreamlight Valley at ≈ 617k–1.0M copies, ≈ $6.8M–$18.3M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the range was 536 to 14k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Life Sim (7 of 8) and Sandbox (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Sandbox, priced around $32. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Adventure; a typical game here doesn't.
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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