How many copies did Farlanders: Prologue sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 288 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Farlanders: Prologue make?

Farlanders: Prologue is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Farlanders: Prologue?

Estimated owners: ≈ 7k–12k; from 288 reviews (Very 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 Farlanders: Prologue out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Farlanders: Prologue's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 15k–192k

best case 1.1M (Surviving Mars)

Games like Farlanders: Prologue

The middle of these games

≈ 15k–192k copies

≈ $64k–$424k after Steam's cut

from ~832 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: Surviving Mars at ≈ 873k–1.4M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 445 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 30 to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (7 of 8) and Colony Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + City Builder.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 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 43 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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