How much revenue did Primitier make?

$44k–$119k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Primitier sell?

Q: How many copies did Primitier sell?

8k to 13k copies, based on its 325 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–13k; $44k–$119k after Steam's cut $81k–$183k before the cut; from 325 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 Primitier out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Primitier's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 765k–2.0M

best case 4.0M (CarX Drift Racing Online)

Games like Primitier

The middle of these games

≈ 765k–2.0M copies

≈ $10.1M–$23.5M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: CarX Drift Racing Online at ≈ 3.1M–5.0M copies, ≈ $14.3M–$38.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 18k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 49k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (7 of 8) and Physics (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Physics, priced around $17.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, 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 61 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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