How much revenue did East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance make?

$43k–$115k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance sell?

Q: How many copies did East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance sell?

52k to 85k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 52k–85k; $43k–$115k after Steam's cut $78k–$177k before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 138k–307k

best case 1.5M (Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator)

Games like East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance

A typical game among these

≈ 138k–307k copies

≈ $1.5M–$2.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.4M 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 801 to 17k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Economy (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Crafting + Simulation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Crafting + Singleplayer + Relaxing; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2010 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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