How much revenue did Distant Lands: Earendel make?

$205–$549 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Distant Lands: Earendel sell?

Q: How many copies did Distant Lands: Earendel 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; $205–$549 after Steam's cut $372–$845 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 Distant Lands: Earendel and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Distant Lands: Earendel's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 67k–173k

best case 266k (Digseum)

Games like Distant Lands: Earendel

A typical game among these

≈ 67k–173k copies

≈ $67k–$331k 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.

No genre covers most of these similar games. The closest is Cats (3 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: Digseum at ≈ 202k–329k copies, ≈ $166k–$448k after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 625 reviews in their first month; the range was 39 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Cats (3 of 8) and Clicker (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $3.
When they shipped: Only 3 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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Ever Seen A Cat? 2022	Est. copies ≈ 25k–41k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $35k–$93k after Steam's cut $63k–$144k before Steam's cut	$4.99	1k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsHidden Object
A Building Full of Cats 2022	Est. copies ≈ 112k–182k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $92k–$248k after Steam's cut $167k–$381k before Steam's cut	$2.99	5k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CatsHidden Object
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Digseum 2024	Est. copies ≈ 202k–329k 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $166k–$448k after Steam's cut $303k–$689k before Steam's cut	$2.99	8k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualClicker
Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery 2021	Est. copies ≈ 192k–312k 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $685k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before Steam's cut	$12.99	8k reviews Very Positive	AtmosphericSingleplayer
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