How much revenue did Final Upgrade make?

$63k–$170k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Final Upgrade sell?

Q: How many copies did Final Upgrade sell?

12k to 19k copies, based on its 464 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12k–19k; $63k–$170k after Steam's cut $115k–$262k before Steam's cut; from 464 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 Final Upgrade and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Final Upgrade's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 420k–533k

best case 5.3M (ASTRONEER)

Games like Final Upgrade

A typical game among these

≈ 420k–533k copies

≈ $5.1M–$6.2M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: ASTRONEER at ≈ 4.0M–6.5M copies, ≈ $33.1M–$89.1M 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 13k reviews in their first month; the range was 3k to 32k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Building (7 of 8) and Base-Building (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Open World, priced around $24. The breakout hits carry Open World + Open World Survival Craft + Base-Building; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2017 to 2026, 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 43 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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