How much revenue did The Universim make?

$2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Universim sell?

Q: How many copies did The Universim sell?

265k to 430k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 265k–430k; $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.0M before Steam's cut; from 11k 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 The Universim and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Universim's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 65k–351k

best case 1.3M (Craft The World)

Games like The Universim

A typical game among these

≈ 65k–351k copies

≈ $399k–$2.3M 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.

7 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Craft The World at ≈ 961k–1.6M copies, ≈ $5.0M–$13.5M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 844 reviews in their first month; the range was 783 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Colony Sim (7 of 8) and Base-Building (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Colony Sim, priced around $19.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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Craft The World 2014	Est. copies ≈ 961k–1.6M 7.6x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.0M–$13.5M after Steam's cut $9.1M–$20.8M before Steam's cut	$18.99	17k reviews Very Positive	DwarfColony Sim
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