How much revenue did Sandwalkers make?

$76k–$203k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sandwalkers sell?

Q: How many copies did Sandwalkers sell?

14k to 22k copies, based on its 555 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 14k–22k; $76k–$203k after Steam's cut $138k–$313k before the cut; from 555 reviews (Mostly 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 Sandwalkers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sandwalkers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 635–7k

best case 236k (Home Behind 2)

Games like Sandwalkers

The middle of these games

≈ 635–7k copies

≈ $3k–$39k after Steam's cut

from ~58 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Home Behind 2 at ≈ 179k–292k copies, ≈ $987k–$2.7M 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 22 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 5k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (6 of 8) and Post-apocalyptic (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Simulation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Simulation + Adventure + Rogue-like; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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