How much revenue did Unpacking make?

$5.5M–$14.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Unpacking sell?

Q: How many copies did Unpacking sell?

1.0M to 1.6M copies, based on its 41k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.0M–1.6M; $5.5M–$14.9M after Steam's cut $10.1M–$22.9M before the cut; from 41k 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 Unpacking out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Unpacking's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–4.9M

best case 56.5M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Unpacking

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–4.9M copies

≈ $5.2M–$64.1M after Steam's cut

from ~50k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Simulation (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.0M–69.9M copies, ≈ $177.4M–$476.9M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 57 to 37k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (4 of 8) and Sandbox (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Pixel Graphics + Agriculture + Farming Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 1 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 52 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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The Sims™ 4 2020	Est. copies ≈ 5.0M–8.0M 4.0x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue Free	Free	200k reviews Very Positive	Life SimCharacter Customization
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.7M–7.6M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $51.7M–$139.1M after Steam's cut $94.0M–$213.9M before the cut	$39.99	155k reviews Very Positive	Souls-likeDark Fantasy
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Dorfromantik 2022	Est. copies ≈ 733k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.7M before the cut	$13.99	30k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	PuzzleRelaxing
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