How much revenue did Forager make?

$7.0M–$18.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Forager sell?

Q: How many copies did Forager sell?

1.3M to 2.1M copies, based on its 44k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.3M–2.1M; $7.0M–$18.8M after Steam's cut $12.7M–$28.9M before Steam's cut; from 44k 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 Forager and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Forager's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 575k–1.7M

best case 129.3M (Terraria)

Games like Forager

A typical game among these

≈ 575k–1.7M copies

≈ $5.1M–$15.6M after Steam's cut

from ~29k 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.

Best case: Terraria at ≈ 98.5M–160.1M copies, ≈ $270.6M–$727.5M 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 8k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 39k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World Survival Craft (6 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry 2D + Crafting + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2011 to 2025, 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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