How much revenue did Factory Town make?

$612k–$1.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Factory Town sell?

Q: How many copies did Factory Town sell?

111k to 181k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 111k–181k; $612k–$1.6M after Steam's cut $1.1M–$2.5M 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 Factory Town and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Factory Town's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 486k–4.2M

best case 9.1M (Satisfactory)

Games like Factory Town

A typical game among these

≈ 486k–4.2M copies

≈ $3.6M–$43.3M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: Satisfactory at ≈ 6.9M–11.3M copies, ≈ $76.3M–$205.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the range was 744 to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Automation (8 of 8) and Base-Building (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Automation, priced around $40.
When they shipped: Only 1 of the 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about which games were found than about the market.

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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shapez 2020	Est. copies ≈ 396k–644k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before Steam's cut	$9.99	16k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AutomationBase-Building
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