How much revenue did Flower Design make?

$1k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Flower Design sell?

Q: How many copies did Flower Design sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 144 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $1k–$4k after Steam's cut $2k–$6k before Steam's cut; from 144 reviews (Mixed)

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 Flower Design and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Flower Design's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 619–7k

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Flower Design

A typical game among these

≈ 619–7k copies

≈ $2k–$38k after Steam's cut

from ~41 reviews

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

1 of the 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.2M–$315.2M 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 7 reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 21.

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

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry City Builder + Management + Singleplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
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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Cities: Skylines 2015	Est. copies ≈ 14.2M–23.1M 7104x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $117.2M–$315.2M after Steam's cut $213.1M–$484.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	291k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Simulation