How much revenue did Pantropy make?

Pantropy is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Pantropy sell?

Q: How many copies did Pantropy sell?

8k to 14k copies, based on its 293 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–14k; from 293 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 Pantropy and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pantropy's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 165k–31.1M

best case 56.0M (Rust)

Games like Pantropy

A typical game among these

≈ 165k–31.1M copies

≈ $5.5M–$207.1M after Steam's cut

from ~284k reviews

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

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rust at ≈ 42.7M–69.3M copies, ≈ $469.3M–$1261.8M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the range was 3 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Crafting (7 of 8) and Survival (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
When they shipped: None of the similar games shipped in the last two years; the newest is from 2021. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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 52 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
ARK: Survival Evolved 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26.8M–43.5M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $110.4M–$296.8M after Steam's cut $200.7M–$456.6M before Steam's cut	$14.99	779k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.8M–33.7M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $114.2M–$306.9M after Steam's cut $207.5M–$472.2M before Steam's cut	$19.99	683k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Don't Starve Together 2016	Est. copies ≈ 22.6M–36.8M 1.9x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $93.2M–$250.7M after Steam's cut $169.5M–$385.7M before Steam's cut	$14.99	544k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
Rust 2018	Est. copies ≈ 42.7M–69.3M 4.9x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $469.3M–$1261.8M after Steam's cut $853.3M–$1941.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	1.4M reviews Very Positive	SurvivalCrafting
The Riftbreaker 2021	Est. copies ≈ 619k–1.0M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $5.1M–$13.7M after Steam's cut $9.3M–$21.1M before Steam's cut	$29.99	25k reviews Very Positive	Base-BuildingTower Defense
CryoFall 2021	Est. copies ≈ 161k–261k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $882k–$2.4M after Steam's cut $1.6M–$3.7M before Steam's cut	$19.99	6k reviews Mostly Positive	Colony SimCrafting
Sky Break 2016	Est. copies ≈ 23k–37k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue Free	Free	543 reviews Mixed	RPGOpen World Survival Craft
Craftica 2020	Est. copies ≈ 273–443 SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $450–$1k after Steam's cut $818–$2k before Steam's cut	$5.99	11 reviews Mostly Positive	BuildingSimulation