How much revenue did Isle of Pan make?

$6k–$16k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Isle of Pan sell?

Q: How many copies did Isle of Pan sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 44 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $6k–$16k after Steam's cut $11k–$25k before the cut; from 44 reviews (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 Isle of Pan out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Isle of Pan's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–3.9M

best case 5.6M (The Long Dark)

Games like Isle of Pan

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–3.9M copies

≈ $18k–$39.7M after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Long Dark at ≈ 4.2M–6.9M copies, ≈ $23.4M–$62.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 33 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 20 to 624.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and Photo Editing (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 2 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 61 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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