How much revenue did Prehistoric Hunt make?

$97k–$261k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Prehistoric Hunt sell?

Q: How many copies did Prehistoric Hunt sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 791 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $97k–$261k after Steam's cut $176k–$401k before Steam's cut; from 791 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 Prehistoric Hunt and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Prehistoric Hunt's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 60k–1.3M

best case 7.8M (The Isle)

Games like Prehistoric Hunt

A typical game among these

≈ 60k–1.3M copies

≈ $666k–$26.2M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: The Isle at ≈ 5.9M–9.6M copies, ≈ $32.6M–$87.7M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 602 reviews in their first month; the range was 347 to 936.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Dinosaurs (7 of 8) and Hunting (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dinosaurs + Survival, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, 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 61 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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