How much revenue did Driftland: The Magic Revival make?

$319k–$858k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Driftland: The Magic Revival sell?

Q: How many copies did Driftland: The Magic Revival sell?

58k to 94k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 58k–94k; $319k–$858k after Steam's cut $580k–$1.3M before Steam's cut; from 2k 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 Driftland: The Magic Revival and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Driftland: The Magic Revival's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.9M–8.4M

best case 10.7M (Stellaris)

Games like Driftland: The Magic Revival

A typical game among these

≈ 2.9M–8.4M copies

≈ $41.9M–$148.6M after Steam's cut

from ~93k 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: Stellaris at ≈ 8.2M–13.3M copies, ≈ $112.6M–$302.6M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 22k reviews in their first month; the range was 12k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Simulation (8 of 8) and Grand Strategy (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Grand Strategy, priced around $50.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2024, and 2 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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