How much revenue did Natural Instincts: European Forest make?

$20k–$55k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Natural Instincts: European Forest sell?

Q: How many copies did Natural Instincts: European Forest sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 299 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $20k–$55k after Steam's cut $37k–$84k before the cut; from 299 reviews (Mixed)

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 Natural Instincts: European Forest out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Natural Instincts: European Forest's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 147k–996k

best case 6.0M (SPORE™)

Games like Natural Instincts: European Forest

The middle of these games

≈ 147k–996k copies

≈ $871k–$14.4M after Steam's cut

from ~5k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: SPORE™ at ≈ 4.6M–7.5M copies, ≈ $25.2M–$67.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 556 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 213 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with God Game + Open World, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2023, 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 31 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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