How much revenue did Penkura make?

$24k–$64k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Penkura sell?

Q: How many copies did Penkura sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 202 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $24k–$64k after Steam's cut $43k–$98k before Steam's cut; from 202 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 Penkura and predicted how it would do from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Penkura's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.9M–2.9M

best case 3.9M (Green Hell)

Games like Penkura

A typical game among these

≈ 1.9M–2.9M copies

≈ $22.6M–$31.9M after Steam's cut

from ~60k 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 3 of the similar games are hits.

This comes from a small set of games, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Green Hell at ≈ 3.0M–4.8M copies, ≈ $20.4M–$54.8M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (3 of 3) and Crafting (2 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 1 of the 3 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 36 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
Abiotic Factor 2025	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $14.2M–$38.2M after Steam's cut $25.8M–$58.7M before Steam's cut	$34.99	59k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SurvivalOnline Co-Op
Stormworks: Build and Rescue 2020	Est. copies ≈ 1.5M–2.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.3M–$27.6M after Steam's cut $18.7M–$42.5M before Steam's cut	$24.99	60k reviews Very Positive	SandboxBase-Building
Green Hell 2019	Est. copies ≈ 3.0M–4.8M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $20.4M–$54.8M after Steam's cut $37.0M–$84.3M before Steam's cut	$24.99	103k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival