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How many copies did TerraScape sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 55k–90k
$227k–$612k after Steam's cut $414k–$941k 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 TerraScape out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including TerraScape's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 66.4M–104.4M
best case 813.7M (Counter-Strike 2)
Games like TerraScape

The middle of these games

≈ 66.4M–104.4M copies

≈ $473.1M–$862.2M after Steam's cut

from ~1.3M 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is FPS (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Counter-Strike 2 at ≈ 620.0M–1007.5M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on FPS (4 of 8) and Shooter (4 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Shooter + FPS. The breakout hits carry Action + Shooter + FPS; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2006 to 2022, 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 79 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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