How much revenue did Fragment: A Story in Growing make?

$4k–$11k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Fragment: A Story in Growing sell?

Q: How many copies did Fragment: A Story in Growing sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 47 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $4k–$11k after Steam's cut $8k–$17k before the cut; from 47 reviews (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 Fragment: A Story in Growing out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Fragment: A Story in Growing's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 68k–260k

best case 439k (Big Ambitions)

Games like Fragment: A Story in Growing

The middle of these games

≈ 68k–260k copies

≈ $362k–$3.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

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

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Big Ambitions at ≈ 335k–544k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 155 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 19 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Economy (8 of 8) and Life Sim (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Economy, priced around $26.
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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