How much revenue did Techtonica make?

$665k–$1.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Techtonica sell?

Q: How many copies did Techtonica sell?

81k to 131k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 81k–131k; $665k–$1.8M after Steam's cut $1.2M–$2.8M before the cut; from 3k 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 Techtonica out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Techtonica's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 18.7M–55.8M

best case 55.6M (Rust)

Games like Techtonica

The middle of these games

≈ 18.7M–55.8M copies

≈ $222.2M–$422.8M after Steam's cut

from ~579k 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.

Best case: Rust at ≈ 42.4M–68.9M copies, ≈ $466.2M–$1253.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (5 of 8) and Open World Survival Craft (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 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 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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