How much revenue did The Otterman Empire make?

$3k–$8k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Otterman Empire sell?

Q: How many copies did The Otterman Empire sell?

670 to 1k copies, based on its 27 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670–1k; $3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut; from 27 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Otterman Empire out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Otterman Empire's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.5M–2.9M

best case 2.6M (Party Animals)

Games like The Otterman Empire

The middle of these games

≈ 2.5M–2.9M copies

≈ $16.0M–$20.7M after Steam's cut

from ~62k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Party Animals at ≈ 2.0M–3.2M copies, ≈ $10.7M–$28.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 67 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 22k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Party Game (6 of 8) and 4 Player Local (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Party Game + Co-op, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 1 of your 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 52 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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