How much revenue did Factory Islands make?

$272–$731 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Factory Islands sell?

Q: How many copies did Factory Islands sell?

397 to 645 copies, based on its 16 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 397–645; $272–$731 after Steam's cut $494–$1k before the cut; from 16 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 Factory Islands out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Factory Islands's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 154k–394k

best case 618k (A Little to the Left)

Games like Factory Islands

The middle of these games

≈ 154k–394k copies

≈ $215k–$3.2M after Steam's cut

from ~7k 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.

Best case: A Little to the Left at ≈ 471k–765k copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.2M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 580 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 117 to 4k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cozy (6 of 8) and Puzzle (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Puzzle + Wholesome, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, 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 36 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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