How much revenue did Anno 2205™ make?

$3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Anno 2205™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Anno 2205™ sell?

311k to 505k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 311k–505k; $3.4M–$9.2M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.1M before Steam's cut; from 6k 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 Anno 2205™ and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Anno 2205™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 50k–503k

best case 1.2M (Surviving Mars)

Games like Anno 2205™

A typical game among these

≈ 50k–503k copies

≈ $250k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Surviving Mars at ≈ 889k–1.4M copies.

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 712 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and City Builder (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + City Builder.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 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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