How much revenue did Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown make?

$86k–$232k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown sell?

Q: How many copies did Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown sell?

11k to 18k copies, based on its 452 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 11k–18k; $86k–$232k after Steam's cut $157k–$357k before the cut; from 452 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 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–3.4M

best case 4.6M (Kenshi)

Games like Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–3.4M copies

≈ $22.3M–$47.7M after Steam's cut

from ~71k 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: Kenshi at ≈ 3.5M–5.7M copies, ≈ $29.1M–$78.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 26k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19k to 44k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (7 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Sandbox, priced around $30.
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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