How much revenue did Orders of Magnitude make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Orders of Magnitude sell?

Q: How many copies did Orders of Magnitude sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 74 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$10k before the cut; from 74 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 Orders of Magnitude out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including Orders of Magnitude's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 985k–5.7M

best case 9.1M (Forza Horizon 5)

Games like Orders of Magnitude

The middle of these games

≈ 985k–5.7M copies

≈ $11.8M–$45.6M after Steam's cut

from ~37k reviews

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

All 6 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Forza Horizon 5 at ≈ 6.9M–11.3M copies, ≈ $114.2M–$307.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 6) and Open World (4 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Open World, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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 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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