How big is the Colony sim market on Steam?

A typical Colony sim game sells 426k to 692k copies, and the top decile 1.4M to 2.2M, based on the 49 games SteamSpy lists for the tag (its visible subset). Labeled estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

What Colony sim games usually sell on Steam

What Colony sim games sell on Steam, shown two ways: a SteamSpy sample of the whole genre, and the Colony sim games people have looked up here.

The whole genre, from SteamSpy's sample

A typical game sells

≈ 426k–692k copies

$2.3M–$6.3M after Steam's cut, est.

The top decile

≈ 1.4M–2.2M copies

$7.6M–$20.4M after Steam's cut, est.

Half the reviews in SteamSpy's sample of 49 Colony sim games sit with 6 of them.

Based on the 49 Colony sim games SteamSpy listed on November 15, 2026. It misses the games that barely sold, so these figures flatter the genre. Games are grouped by the tags players give them, which are applied loosely, so a genre's edges are fuzzy. Copies are SteamSpy estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

The Colony sim games gathered on wishvane

Across the 217 Colony sim games compared here, a typical one sells ≈ 147k–187k copies (est.), with the biggest of them, RimWorld, at ≈ 7.6M–12.3M. These are the games people chose to compare, not a sample of the genre, so they run far larger than SteamSpy's figures above.

The Colony sim games gathered here span 2008 to 2026, and 69 of them shipped in the last two years.
The biggest Colony sim games here share nothing more specific than the genre; individually they lead with Space and Base-Building.
Across the Colony sim games gathered here a typical price is $17.99, and the biggest charge more, around $25.

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