How much revenue did Age of Water make?

$720k–$1.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Age of Water sell?

Q: How many copies did Age of Water sell?

87k to 142k copies, based on its 4k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 87k–142k; $720k–$1.9M after Steam's cut $1.3M–$3.0M before the cut; from 4k reviews (Mostly 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 Age of Water out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Age of Water's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 27.0M–51.6M

best case 55.6M (Rust)

Games like Age of Water

The middle of these games

≈ 27.0M–51.6M copies

≈ $347.3M–$501.7M after Steam's cut

from ~529k reviews

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

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rust at ≈ 42.4M–68.9M copies, ≈ $466.2M–$1253.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World (6 of 8) and Survival (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Crafting, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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