How much revenue did Timberborn make?

$9.8M–$26.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Timberborn sell?

Q: How many copies did Timberborn sell?

1.0M to 1.7M copies, based on its 41k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.0M–1.7M; $9.8M–$26.4M after Steam's cut $17.9M–$40.7M before the cut; from 41k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Timberborn out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Timberborn's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 464k–970k

best case 1.4M (Kingdoms and Castles)

Games like Timberborn

The middle of these games

≈ 464k–970k copies

≈ $4.0M–$7.5M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Kingdoms and Castles at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $5.9M–$16.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 345 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 125 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (7 of 8) and Colony Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Colony Sim, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, 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 43 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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