How much revenue did Palworld make?

$98.7M–$265.3M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Palworld sell?

Q: How many copies did Palworld sell?

12.0M to 19.4M copies, based on its 482k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 12.0M–19.4M; $98.7M–$265.3M after Steam's cut $179.4M–$408.2M before the cut; from 482k 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 Palworld out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Palworld's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 554k–1.6M

best case 2.3M (WEBFISHING)

Games like Palworld

The middle of these games

≈ 554k–1.6M copies

≈ $4.6M–$13.7M after Steam's cut

from ~34k 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: WEBFISHING at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 14k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 37k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Creature Collector (7 of 8) and Character Customization (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fishing + Character Customization, priced around $5.
The era: 4 of your 8 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).

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