How much revenue did refarm make?

$8k–$22k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did refarm sell?

Q: How many copies did refarm sell?

7k to 12k copies, based on its 300 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 7k–12k; $8k–$22k after Steam's cut $15k–$34k before the cut; from 300 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 refarm out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including refarm's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 78k–279k

best case 482k (Rusty's Retirement)

Games like refarm

The middle of these games

≈ 78k–279k copies

≈ $214k–$646k 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.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Rusty's Retirement at ≈ 367k–597k copies, ≈ $706k–$1.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 651 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 30 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Idler (7 of 8) and Farming Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Idler + Farming Sim, priced around $7.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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