How much revenue did Learning Factory make?

$53k–$144k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Learning Factory sell?

Q: How many copies did Learning Factory sell?

13k to 21k copies, based on its 523 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–21k; $53k–$144k after Steam's cut $97k–$221k before the cut; from 523 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 Learning Factory out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Learning Factory's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3.0M–6.0M

best case 9.8M (RimWorld)

Games like Learning Factory

The middle of these games

≈ 3.0M–6.0M copies

≈ $34.3M–$78.9M after Steam's cut

from ~91k 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: RimWorld at ≈ 7.5M–12.1M copies, ≈ $71.8M–$193.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 44k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 26k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (8 of 8) and Management (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, 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 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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Oxygen Not Included 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.4M–$76.4M after Steam's cut $51.7M–$117.5M before the cut	$24.99	144k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
RimWorld 2018	Est. copies ≈ 7.5M–12.1M 2.7x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $71.8M–$193.1M after Steam's cut $130.6M–$297.1M before the cut	$34.99	246k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
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