How much revenue did Farworld Pioneers make?

$72k–$193k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Farworld Pioneers sell?

Q: How many copies did Farworld Pioneers sell?

17k to 28k copies, based on its 701 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 17k–28k; $72k–$193k after Steam's cut $130k–$296k before the cut; from 701 reviews (Mostly Negative)

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 Farworld Pioneers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Farworld Pioneers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 317k–8.1M

best case 35.1M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like Farworld Pioneers

The middle of these games

≈ 317k–8.1M copies

≈ $1.6M–$47.1M after Steam's cut

from ~11k 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: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.7M–43.4M copies, ≈ $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 69 to 22k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World Survival Craft (6 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2026, and 3 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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