How much revenue did Kynseed make?

$665k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kynseed sell?

Q: How many copies did Kynseed sell?

97k to 157k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 97k–157k; $665k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before Steam's cut; from 4k 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 Kynseed and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kynseed's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 205k–1.7M

best case 2.2M (Core Keeper)

Games like Kynseed

A typical game among these

≈ 205k–1.7M copies

≈ $1.4M–$13.9M after Steam's cut

from ~27k 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: Core Keeper at ≈ 1.7M–2.7M copies, ≈ $9.3M–$24.9M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the range was 1k to 39k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Crafting (7 of 8) and Farming Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Sandbox, priced around $20.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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Forager 2019	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.0M–$18.8M after Steam's cut $12.7M–$28.9M before Steam's cut	$19.99	44k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Core Keeper 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.7M–2.7M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.3M–$24.9M after Steam's cut $16.9M–$38.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	68k reviews Very Positive	Pixel GraphicsOpen World Survival Craft
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