How much revenue did Microtopia make?

$132k–$354k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Microtopia sell?

Q: How many copies did Microtopia sell?

24k to 39k copies, based on its 966 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 24k–39k; $132k–$354k after Steam's cut $239k–$545k before the cut; from 966 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 Microtopia out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Microtopia's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 124k–140k

best case 1.2M (Against the Storm)

Games like Microtopia

The middle of these games

≈ 124k–140k copies

≈ $1.1M–$1.5M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Against the Storm at ≈ 926k–1.5M copies, ≈ $7.6M–$20.5M 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 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 809 to 19k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (7 of 8) and City Builder (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder, priced around $30.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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