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How many copies did The Forgotten Land sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 3k–4k
$6k–$17k after Steam's cut $11k–$26k before the cut
from 101 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 The Forgotten Land out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Forgotten Land's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 42k–119k
best case 215k (Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes)
Games like The Forgotten Land

The middle of these games

≈ 42k–119k copies

≈ $59k–$362k after Steam's cut

from ~948 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: Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes at ≈ 164k–266k copies.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Match 3 (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + Turn-Based.
The era
The games you compared span 2008 to 2015, 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 61 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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