How much revenue did We Are The Caretakers make?

$5k–$13k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did We Are The Caretakers sell?

Q: How many copies did We Are The Caretakers sell?

893 to 1k copies, based on its 36 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 893–1k; $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut; from 36 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 We Are The Caretakers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including We Are The Caretakers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–20k

best case 40k (Master of Magic)

Games like We Are The Caretakers

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–20k copies

≈ $14k–$185k after Steam's cut

from ~190 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Master of Magic at ≈ 30k–49k copies, ≈ $333k–$895k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 59 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 456.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8) and Strategy RPG (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Turn-Based Combat + 4X, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2023, and none of them 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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