How many copies did Ylands sell?

243k to 395k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Ylands make?

Ylands is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Ylands?

Estimated owners: ≈ 243k–395k; from 8k reviews (Mixed)

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 Ylands out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Ylands's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.4M–7.5M

best case 128.5M (Terraria)

Games like Ylands

The middle of these games

≈ 5.4M–7.5M copies

≈ $39.7M–$52.0M after Steam's cut

from ~123k 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: Terraria at ≈ 97.9M–159.1M copies, ≈ $269.0M–$723.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Open World Survival Craft (8 of 8) and Survival (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2019, 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 36 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M 5.5x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
No Man's Sky 2016	Est. copies ≈ 17.2M–28.0M 3.4x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $284.5M–$764.9M after Steam's cut $517.2M–$1176.7M before the cut	$59.99	415k reviews Very Positive	Open WorldOpen World Survival Craft
Don't Starve Together 2016	Est. copies ≈ 22.6M–36.7M 4.4x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $93.0M–$250.0M after Steam's cut $169.0M–$384.6M before the cut	$14.99	542k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
Subnautica 2018	Est. copies ≈ 11.5M–18.7M 3.1x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $95.0M–$255.4M after Steam's cut $172.7M–$393.0M before the cut	$29.99	379k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
Terraria 2011	Est. copies ≈ 97.9M–159.1M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $269.0M–$723.1M after Steam's cut $489.0M–$1112.5M before the cut	$9.99	1.5M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSandbox
Don't Starve 2013	Est. copies ≈ 7.2M–11.6M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $19.7M–$52.9M after Steam's cut $35.8M–$81.4M before the cut	$9.99	113k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
The Long Dark 2017	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.9M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $23.4M–$62.8M after Steam's cut $42.5M–$96.6M before the cut	$19.99	123k reviews Very Positive	SurvivalOpen World Survival Craft
ASTRONEER 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.0M–6.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $33.0M–$88.8M after Steam's cut $60.1M–$136.6M before the cut	$29.99	139k reviews Very Positive	MultiplayerOpen World