How much revenue did Gord make?

$241k–$647k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Gord sell?

Q: How many copies did Gord sell?

25k to 41k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–41k; $241k–$647k after Steam's cut $437k–$995k before the cut; from 1k 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 Gord out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Gord's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–5.4M

best case 9.8M (RimWorld)

Games like Gord

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–5.4M copies

≈ $23.0M–$60.7M after Steam's cut

from ~51k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: RimWorld at ≈ 7.5M–12.1M copies, ≈ $71.8M–$193.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Colony Sim (8 of 8) and Survival (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, 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 70 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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Surviving Mars 2018	Est. copies ≈ 873k–1.4M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue Free	Free	29k reviews Mostly Positive	Colony Sim City Builder
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Oxygen Not Included 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M 2.8x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.4M–$76.4M after Steam's cut $51.7M–$117.5M before the cut	$24.99	144k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
Infested Fortress 2023	Est. copies ≈ 1k–2k too small to compare SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $6k–$15k after Steam's cut $10k–$23k before the cut	$19.99	41 reviews Positive	StrategyBase-Building
RimWorld 2018	Est. copies ≈ 7.5M–12.1M 4.8x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $71.8M–$193.1M after Steam's cut $130.6M–$297.1M before the cut	$34.99	246k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building