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How many copies did Planetary Delivery sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 149–242
$81–$219 after Steam's cut $148–$337 before the cut
from 6 reviews (6 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Planetary Delivery out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Planetary Delivery's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 456–13k
best case 27k (Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography)
Games like Planetary Delivery

The middle of these games

≈ 456–13k copies

≈ $738–$119k after Steam's cut

from ~54 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography at ≈ 20k–33k copies, ≈ $112k–$302k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
The games that made it here had under 708 reviews in their first month.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Education (7 of 8) and Hidden Object (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Education + Immersive Sim, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2020 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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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