How much revenue did My life as an archeologist make?

$9k–$24k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did My life as an archeologist sell?

Q: How many copies did My life as an archeologist sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 333 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $9k–$24k after Steam's cut $16k–$37k before the cut; from 333 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 My life as an archeologist out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including My life as an archeologist's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–2.6M

best case 3.3M (World of Tanks)

Games like My life as an archeologist

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies

≈ $7.5M–$26.5M after Steam's cut

from ~51k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Creature Collector (3 of 8), 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: World of Tanks at ≈ 2.5M–4.1M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 12k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 33k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Creature Collector (3 of 8) and Character Customization (2 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tanks + Military.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, 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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