How much revenue did Tribe: Primitive Builder make?

$109k–$292k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Tribe: Primitive Builder sell?

Q: How many copies did Tribe: Primitive Builder sell?

20k to 32k copies, based on its 796 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 20k–32k; $109k–$292k after Steam's cut $197k–$449k before the cut; from 796 reviews (Very 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 Tribe: Primitive Builder out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Tribe: Primitive Builder's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 79k–548k

best case 1.3M (Timberborn)

Games like Tribe: Primitive Builder

The middle of these games

≈ 79k–548k copies

≈ $371k–$7.4M after Steam's cut

from ~12k reviews

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

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Timberborn at ≈ 1.0M–1.7M copies, ≈ $9.8M–$26.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 406 to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Automation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Voxel, priced around $35.
The era: 6 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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