How much revenue did The Witch of Fern Island make?

$156k–$419k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Witch of Fern Island sell?

Q: How many copies did The Witch of Fern Island sell?

23k to 37k copies, based on its 915 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 23k–37k; $156k–$419k after Steam's cut $284k–$645k before the cut; from 915 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 The Witch of Fern Island out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Witch of Fern Island's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 76k–126k

best case 1.7M (My Time at Portia)

Games like The Witch of Fern Island

The middle of these games

≈ 76k–126k copies

≈ $865k–$1.0M 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.

Best case: My Time at Portia at ≈ 1.3M–2.1M copies, ≈ $10.5M–$28.3M 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 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 333 to 20k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Farming Sim (8 of 8) and Life Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Farming Sim, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Crafting + RPG + Building; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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