How much revenue did Fort Solis make?

$716k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fort Solis sell?

Q: How many copies did Fort Solis sell?

104k to 169k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 104k–169k; $716k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 405k–1.4M

best case 4.1M (INSIDE)

Games like Fort Solis

The middle of these games

≈ 405k–1.4M copies

≈ $4.8M–$19.1M after Steam's cut

from ~16k 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: INSIDE at ≈ 3.1M–5.1M copies, ≈ $21.6M–$58.2M 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 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 723 to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (6 of 8) and Cinematic (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Story Rich, priced around $32. The breakout hits carry Atmospheric + 2.5D + Puzzle-Platformer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, 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 70 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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