How much revenue did Predynastic Egypt make?

$221k–$594k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Predynastic Egypt sell?

Q: How many copies did Predynastic Egypt sell?

80k to 131k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 80k–131k; $221k–$594k after Steam's cut $402k–$914k 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 Predynastic Egypt and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Predynastic Egypt's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 820k–868k

best case 27.3M (The Forest)

Games like Predynastic Egypt

A typical game among these

≈ 820k–868k copies

≈ $10.3M–$12.3M after Steam's cut

from ~26k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: The Forest at ≈ 20.8M–33.7M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$306.9M 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 18k reviews in their first month; the range was 4k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (7 of 8) and City Builder (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + War, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, and 3 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 70 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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