How much revenue did Kainga: Seeds of Civilization make?

$104k–$280k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Kainga: Seeds of Civilization sell?

Q: How many copies did Kainga: Seeds of Civilization sell?

19k to 31k copies, based on its 765 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 19k–31k; $104k–$280k after Steam's cut $190k–$431k before the cut; from 765 reviews (Mostly 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 Kainga: Seeds of Civilization out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Kainga: Seeds of Civilization's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–2.3M

best case 1.9M (The Henry Stickmin Collection)

Games like Kainga: Seeds of Civilization

The middle of these games

≈ 1.2M–2.3M copies

≈ $6.6M–$14.8M after Steam's cut

from ~31k 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 Comedy (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: The Henry Stickmin Collection at ≈ 1.5M–2.4M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 10k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 15k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Comedy (4 of 8) and FPS (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Multiple Endings + Choose Your Own Adventure, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2007 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 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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