How much revenue did Sand:box make?

$23k–$63k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Sand:box sell?

Q: How many copies did Sand:box sell?

43k to 69k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 43k–69k; $23k–$63k after Steam's cut $43k–$97k before the cut; from 2k 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 Sand:box out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Sand:box's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.2M–10.3M

best case 56.5M (Stardew Valley)

Games like Sand:box

The middle of these games

≈ 2.2M–10.3M copies

≈ $16.9M–$110.4M after Steam's cut

from ~161k 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: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.0M–69.9M copies, ≈ $177.4M–$476.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 28k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 86k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (7 of 8) and Simulation (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Farming Sim + Life Sim, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 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 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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