How much revenue did Membal make?

$138–$368 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Membal sell?

Q: How many copies did Membal sell?

50 to 81 copies, based on its 2 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 50–81; $138–$368 after Steam's cut $250–$566 before the cut; from 2 reviews (2 user reviews); Thin evidence: 2 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 Membal out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Membal's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11k–19k

best case 1.2M (Anno 1800)

Games like Membal

The middle of these games

≈ 11k–19k copies

≈ $35k–$148k after Steam's cut

from ~504 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is City Builder (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: Anno 1800 at ≈ 927k–1.5M copies, ≈ $15.3M–$41.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 321 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 87 to 662.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (4 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $60. The breakout hits carry Resource Management + Economy + Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2010 to 2026, 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 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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