How much revenue did Planetiles make?

$7k–$18k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Planetiles sell?

Q: How many copies did Planetiles sell?

2k to 4k copies, based on its 97 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–4k; $7k–$18k after Steam's cut $12k–$27k before the cut; from 97 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 Planetiles out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Planetiles's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1k–5k

best case 19k (Tile Cities)

Games like Planetiles

The middle of these games

≈ 1k–5k copies

≈ $3k–$16k after Steam's cut

from ~103 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Tile Cities at ≈ 14k–23k copies, ≈ $12k–$32k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 37 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 11 to 115.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (8 of 8) and Puzzle (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Turn-Based Tactics, priced around $3.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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