How much revenue did Plan B: Terraform make?

$391k–$1.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Plan B: Terraform sell?

Q: How many copies did Plan B: Terraform sell?

89k to 145k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 89k–145k; $391k–$1.1M after Steam's cut $712k–$1.6M before the cut; from 4k 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 Plan B: Terraform out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Plan B: Terraform's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 997k–2.1M

best case 9.1M (Satisfactory)

Games like Plan B: Terraform

The middle of these games

≈ 997k–2.1M copies

≈ $13.8M–$21.1M after Steam's cut

from ~39k 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: Satisfactory at ≈ 6.9M–11.2M copies, ≈ $76.0M–$204.4M 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 29k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 184k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (7 of 8) and Building (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Automation + Base-Building, priced around $37. The breakout hits carry Crafting + Multiplayer + Resource Management; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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