How much revenue did Liberte make?

$25k–$69k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Liberte sell?

Q: How many copies did Liberte sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 187 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $25k–$69k after Steam's cut $46k–$105k before the cut; from 187 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 Liberte out and predicted the genre from its 6 similar games. Every figure here, including Liberte's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29.2M–68.6M

best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)

Games like Liberte

The middle of these games

≈ 29.2M–68.6M copies

≈ $204.8M–$355.8M after Steam's cut

from ~889k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 6 of your similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Building (3 of 6), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (3 of 6) and First-Person (3 of 6).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2020, and none of them 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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Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012	Est. copies ≈ 59.4M–96.6M SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut $594.0M–$1351.4M before the cut	$19.99	940k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DrivingTransportation
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ARK: Survival Evolved 2017	Est. copies ≈ 26.7M–43.4M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut $200.2M–$455.4M before the cut	$14.99	776k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Garry's Mod 2006	Est. copies ≈ 79.8M–129.6M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut $398.4M–$906.5M before the cut	$9.99	1.3M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxModdable
Wallpaper Engine 2018	Est. copies ≈ 30.8M–50.0M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $42.2M–$113.5M after Steam's cut $76.8M–$174.6M before the cut	$4.99	1.0M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	MatureUtilities
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival