How many copies did Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox sell?

275k to 448k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox make?

Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox?

Estimated players who have it: ≈ 275k–448k; from 8k 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 Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–6.9M

best case 12.1M (People Playground)

Games like Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox

A typical game among these

≈ 1.1M–6.9M copies

≈ $8.2M–$46.8M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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 Sandbox (4 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: People Playground at ≈ 9.2M–15.0M copies, ≈ $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (4 of 8) and Building (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2014 to 2025, 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 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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Paint the Town Red 2021	Est. copies ≈ 810k–1.3M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $4.5M–$12.0M after Steam's cut $8.1M–$18.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	GoreBlood
People Playground 2019	Est. copies ≈ 9.2M–15.0M 7.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $25.4M–$68.2M after Steam's cut $46.1M–$104.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	321k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxGore
Forts 2017	Est. copies ≈ 876k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $3.6M–$9.7M after Steam's cut $6.6M–$14.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	25k reviews Very Positive	Base-BuildingMultiplayer
RimWorld 2018	Est. copies ≈ 7.6M–12.3M 5.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $72.7M–$195.4M after Steam's cut $132.2M–$300.7M before Steam's cut	$34.99	249k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
UNO 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.0M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.8M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.2M before Steam's cut	$9.99	54k reviews Mostly Positive	Card GameMultiplayer
IdleOn - The Incremental MMO 2025	Est. copies ≈ 741k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	30k reviews Mostly Positive	IdlerPixel Graphics
Trove 2015	Est. copies ≈ 4.5M–7.4M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	93k reviews Mostly Positive	Free to PlayOpen World
BLOCKADE 3D 2014	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.3M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	25k reviews Mixed	Free to PlayShooter