How much revenue did Planet Barren Objective make?

$265–$713 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Planet Barren Objective sell?

Q: How many copies did Planet Barren Objective sell?

322 to 524 copies, based on its 13 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 322–524; $265–$713 after Steam's cut $481–$1k before the cut; from 13 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 Planet Barren Objective out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Planet Barren Objective's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–87k

best case 674k (Kingdom: New Lands)

Games like Planet Barren Objective

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–87k copies

≈ $5k–$528k after Steam's cut

from ~259 reviews

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

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Kingdom: New Lands at ≈ 514k–834k copies, ≈ $2.1M–$5.7M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 2k 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 Colony Sim (7 of 8) and Exploration (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Tower Defense + Survival, priced around $15.
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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 52 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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