How much revenue did Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution make?

$168k–$451k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution sell?

Q: How many copies did Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution sell?

30k to 50k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 30k–50k; $168k–$451k after Steam's cut $305k–$693k before Steam's cut; from 1k 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 Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 844k–3.1M

best case 9.4M (Kerbal Space Program)

Games like Species: Artificial Life, Real Evolution

A typical game among these

≈ 844k–3.1M copies

≈ $10.4M–$35.3M after Steam's cut

from ~30k 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: Kerbal Space Program at ≈ 7.2M–11.7M copies, ≈ $79.0M–$212.3M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Sandbox (7 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Space + Simulation, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2008 to 2023, and none of them 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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Kerbal Space Program 2015	Est. copies ≈ 7.2M–11.7M 4.9x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $79.0M–$212.3M after Steam's cut $143.6M–$326.6M before Steam's cut	$39.99	147k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SpaceSimulation
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