How much revenue did Benign Land make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Benign Land sell?

Q: How many copies did Benign Land sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 47 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before Steam's cut; from 47 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 Benign Land and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Benign Land's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 228–2k

best case 3k (DeepStates [VR])

Games like Benign Land

A typical game among these

≈ 228–2k copies

≈ $568–$2k after Steam's cut

from ~30 reviews

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

None of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: DeepStates [VR] at ≈ 2k–4k copies, ≈ $8k–$20k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 4 reviews in their first month; the range was 1 to 24.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Nature (6 of 8) and Walking Simulator (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with VR + Nature, priced around $12.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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