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How many copies did RivenWorld: The First Era sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 1k–2k
$3k–$8k after Steam's cut $5k–$12k before the cut
from 42 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 RivenWorld: The First Era out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including RivenWorld: The First Era's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 364k–817k
best case 2.2M (Far Cry® Primal)
Games like RivenWorld: The First Era

The middle of these games

≈ 364k–817k copies

≈ $3.7M–$6.4M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Far Cry® Primal at ≈ 1.7M–2.8M copies, ≈ $14.1M–$37.9M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Open World (7 of 8) and Survival (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Open World + Survival, priced around $30.
The era
The games you compared span 2015 to 2026, and 2 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 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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