How much revenue did Roots of Pacha make?

$773k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Roots of Pacha sell?

Q: How many copies did Roots of Pacha sell?

112k to 183k copies, based on its 5k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 112k–183k; $773k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before the cut; from 5k 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 Roots of Pacha out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Roots of Pacha's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 560k–2.6M

best case 56.5M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Roots of Pacha

The middle of these games

≈ 560k–2.6M copies

≈ $3.4M–$26.7M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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 Farming Sim (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.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 533 to 43k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Farming Sim (4 of 8) and Crafting (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 2 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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