How much revenue did SPORE™ make?

$25.2M–$67.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SPORE™ sell?

Q: How many copies did SPORE™ sell?

4.6M to 7.5M copies, based on its 73k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 4.6M–7.5M; $25.2M–$67.8M after Steam's cut $45.8M–$104.3M before the cut; from 73k 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 SPORE™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including SPORE™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 567k–1.1M

best case 3.9M (Planet Coaster)

Games like SPORE™

The middle of these games

≈ 567k–1.1M copies

≈ $4.0M–$8.1M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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: Planet Coaster at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies, ≈ $37.1M–$99.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (7 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Building, priced around $45. The breakout hits carry Relaxing + Family Friendly + Management; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 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 79 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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