How much revenue did Return from Core make?

$210k–$564k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Return from Core sell?

Q: How many copies did Return from Core sell?

45k to 73k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 45k–73k; $210k–$564k after Steam's cut $381k–$867k before the cut; from 2k reviews (Mostly 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 Return from Core out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Return from Core's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 868k–8.0M

best case 15.7M (Palworld)

Games like Return from Core

The middle of these games

≈ 868k–8.0M copies

≈ $6.1M–$112.3M after Steam's cut

from ~106k 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: Palworld at ≈ 12.0M–19.4M copies, ≈ $98.7M–$265.3M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 32k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 7k to 470k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and Survival (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $30.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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 36 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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