How much revenue did Planet Miners make?

$491–$1k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Planet Miners sell?

Q: How many copies did Planet Miners sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $491–$1k after Steam's cut $893–$2k before Steam's cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Planet Miners and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Planet Miners's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 59k–111k

best case 916k (SteamWorld Dig)

Games like Planet Miners

A typical game among these

≈ 59k–111k copies

≈ $531k–$1.1M after Steam's cut

from ~2k 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: SteamWorld Dig at ≈ 698k–1.1M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the range was 930 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (6 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Platformer + Mining, priced around $22. The breakout hits carry Platformer + Steampunk + Metroidvania; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 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 79 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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