How much revenue did Memetric: Final Lifeforms make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Memetric: Final Lifeforms sell?

Q: How many copies did Memetric: Final Lifeforms sell?

446 to 725 copies, based on its 18 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 446–725; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 18 reviews (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 Memetric: Final Lifeforms out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Memetric: Final Lifeforms's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 23k–80k

best case 9.8M (RimWorld)

Games like Memetric: Final Lifeforms

The middle of these games

≈ 23k–80k copies

≈ $116k–$499k after Steam's cut

from ~701 reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: RimWorld at ≈ 7.5M–12.1M copies, ≈ $71.8M–$193.1M 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 398 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (5 of 8) and Colony Sim (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Survival + Management + Building; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2025, and 1 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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