How much revenue did ORION: Prelude make?

$488k–$1.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ORION: Prelude sell?

Q: How many copies did ORION: Prelude sell?

1.8M to 2.9M copies, based on its 28k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.8M–2.9M; $488k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $887k–$2.0M before the cut; from 28k 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 ORION: Prelude out and predicted the genre from its 7 similar games. Every figure here, including ORION: Prelude's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 217k–425k

best case 1.3M (Dino D-Day)

Games like ORION: Prelude

The middle of these games

≈ 217k–425k copies

≈ $91k–$1.9M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

6 of your 7 similar games are hits.

Best case: Dino D-Day at ≈ 955k–1.6M copies, ≈ $2.6M–$7.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dinosaurs (6 of 7) and Shooter (5 of 7).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dinosaurs + World War II, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2020, 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 79 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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Dinosaur Hunt 2015	Est. copies ≈ 192k–312k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $52k–$140k after Steam's cut $95k–$216k before the cut	$0.99	4k reviews Mixed	DinosaursAction
theHunter: Primal 2015	Est. copies ≈ 198k–322k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	4k reviews Mixed	DinosaursSurvival
Primal Carnage 2012	Est. copies ≈ 366k–595k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $502k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $913k–$2.1M before the cut	$4.99	6k reviews Mostly Positive	DinosaursAction
Dino D-Day 2011	Est. copies ≈ 955k–1.6M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.1M after Steam's cut $4.8M–$10.9M before the cut	$9.99	15k reviews Very Positive	DinosaursMultiplayer
Bloody Glimpse 2017	Est. copies ≈ 9k–14k too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $2k–$6k after Steam's cut $4k–$10k before the cut	$0.99	258 reviews Mixed	ActionIndie
Guardians of Orion (Phase 2) 2016	Est. copies ≈ 150k–244k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $41k–$110k after Steam's cut $74k–$169k before the cut	$0.99	4k reviews Mixed	ActionDinosaurs
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