How much revenue did FOUNDRY make?

$811k–$2.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FOUNDRY sell?

Q: How many copies did FOUNDRY sell?

98k to 160k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 98k–160k; $811k–$2.2M after Steam's cut $1.5M–$3.4M 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 FOUNDRY and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FOUNDRY's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.0M–2.3M

best case 9.1M (Satisfactory)

Games like FOUNDRY

A typical game among these

≈ 1.0M–2.3M copies

≈ $7.0M–$21.7M after Steam's cut

from ~46k 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. 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 26k reviews in their first month; the range was 2k to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Base-Building (8 of 8) and Automation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Base-Building, priced around $37. The breakout hits carry Crafting + Resource Management + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: Only 2 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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