How much revenue did Terra Nil make?

$1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Terra Nil sell?

Q: How many copies did Terra Nil sell?

217k to 352k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 217k–352k; $1.5M–$4.0M after Steam's cut $2.7M–$6.2M before the cut; from 9k 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 Terra Nil out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Terra Nil's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 8k–66k

best case 75k (Cloud Gardens)

Games like Terra Nil

The middle of these games

≈ 8k–66k copies

≈ $31k–$461k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Cloud Gardens at ≈ 57k–93k copies, ≈ $283k–$761k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 406 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 23 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Puzzle (7 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Nature + Sandbox, priced around $18.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2025, 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 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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Cloud Gardens 2021	Est. copies ≈ 57k–93k 2.3x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $283k–$761k after Steam's cut $515k–$1.2M before the cut	$17.99	2k reviews Very Positive	NatureSandbox
Preserve 2025	Est. copies ≈ 19k–31k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $66k–$176k after Steam's cut $119k–$271k before the cut	$12.49	769 reviews Very Positive	PuzzleTurn-Based Strategy
Block'hood 2017	Est. copies ≈ 43k–70k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $178k–$480k after Steam's cut $324k–$738k before the cut	$14.99	1k reviews Mostly Positive	City Builder Simulation
Land Above Sea Below 2023	Est. copies ≈ 4k–6k SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$34k before the cut	$7.99	151 reviews Mostly Positive	City BuilderLogic
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Please Fix The Road 2022	Est. copies ≈ 7k–12k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $19k–$52k after Steam's cut $35k–$81k before the cut	$9.99	286 reviews Mostly Positive	PuzzleCasual
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