How much revenue did Core Keeper make?

$9.0M–$24.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Core Keeper sell?

Q: How many copies did Core Keeper sell?

1.6M to 2.7M copies, based on its 66k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.6M–2.7M; $9.0M–$24.3M after Steam's cut $16.4M–$37.3M before the cut; from 66k 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 Core Keeper out and predicted the genre from its 3 similar games. Every figure here, including Core Keeper's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–10.0M

best case 17.6M (Valheim)

Games like Core Keeper

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–10.0M copies

≈ $13.7M–$113.0M after Steam's cut

from ~73k reviews

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

All 3 of your similar games are hits.

From a small set, so take it as a sketch.

Best case: Valheim at ≈ 13.4M–21.8M copies, ≈ $110.6M–$297.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 22k to 132k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (3 of 3) and Open World Survival Craft (3 of 3).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $30.
The era: 2 of your 3 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Valheim 2021	Est. copies ≈ 13.4M–21.8M 7.4x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $110.6M–$297.4M after Steam's cut $201.1M–$457.5M before the cut	$29.99	541k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Necesse 2025	Est. copies ≈ 715k–1.2M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.9M after Steam's cut $5.4M–$12.2M before the cut	$14.99	29k reviews Very Positive	Open World Survival CraftMultiplayer
The Planet Crafter 2024	Est. copies ≈ 1.8M–2.9M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $12.0M–$32.2M after Steam's cut $21.7M–$49.5M before the cut	$23.99	73k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftBase-Building