How much revenue did Monster Harvest make?

$62k–$168k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Monster Harvest sell?

Q: How many copies did Monster Harvest sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 539 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $62k–$168k after Steam's cut $114k–$258k before the cut; from 539 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 Monster Harvest out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Monster Harvest's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 58k–76k

best case 87k (Paleo Pines)

Games like Monster Harvest

The middle of these games

≈ 58k–76k copies

≈ $611k–$822k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Paleo Pines at ≈ 66k–108k copies, ≈ $546k–$1.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 331 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 110 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (6 of 8) and Exploration (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dinosaurs + Farming Sim, priced around $30.
The era: Only 2 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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