How much revenue did Dorfromantik make?

$2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dorfromantik sell?

Q: How many copies did Dorfromantik sell?

733k to 1.2M copies, based on its 30k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 733k–1.2M; $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut $5.1M–$11.7M before the cut; from 30k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Dorfromantik out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dorfromantik's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 82k–145k

best case 792k (Mini Motorways)

Games like Dorfromantik

The middle of these games

≈ 82k–145k copies

≈ $649k–$827k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Mini Motorways at ≈ 604k–981k copies, ≈ $1.7M–$4.5M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 10k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Experimental + Building, priced around $8. The breakout hits carry Relaxing + City Builder + Minimalist; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 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 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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