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How many copies did Island Cities - Jigsaw Puzzle sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 6k–10k
$3k–$9k after Steam's cut $6k–$14k before the cut
from 245 reviews (Very Positive)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 196k–725k
best case 962k (Dorfromantik)
Games like Island Cities - Jigsaw Puzzle

The middle of these games

≈ 196k–725k copies

≈ $813k–$2.8M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: Dorfromantik at ≈ 733k–1.2M copies, ≈ $2.8M–$7.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 15k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Puzzle (5 of 8) and City Builder (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Puzzle + City Builder, priced around $14.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2023, and none of them 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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