How much revenue did Cultivation Tales make?

$1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cultivation Tales sell?

Q: How many copies did Cultivation Tales sell?

338k to 549k copies, based on its 14k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 338k–549k; $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.7M before the cut; from 14k 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 Cultivation Tales out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cultivation Tales's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 12.8M–16.2M

best case 128.5M (Terraria)

Games like Cultivation Tales

The middle of these games

≈ 12.8M–16.2M copies

≈ $160.2M–$209.6M after Steam's cut

from ~441k 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: Terraria at ≈ 97.9M–159.1M copies, ≈ $269.0M–$723.1M 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 255k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 132k to 470k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World Survival Craft (7 of 8) and Survival (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox, priced around $10. The breakout hits carry Sandbox; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2026, and 2 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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