How much revenue did Paleo Pines make?

$546k–$1.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Paleo Pines sell?

Q: How many copies did Paleo Pines sell?

66k to 108k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 66k–108k; $546k–$1.5M after Steam's cut $993k–$2.3M before the cut; from 3k 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 Paleo Pines out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paleo Pines's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–2.9M

best case 5.3M (DAVE THE DIVER)

Games like Paleo Pines

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–2.9M copies

≈ $18.0M–$30.0M after Steam's cut

from ~58k 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: DAVE THE DIVER at ≈ 4.0M–6.5M copies, ≈ $22.0M–$59.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 31 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 43k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (6 of 8) and Farming Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Exploration, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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