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How many copies did East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 52k–84k
$43k–$115k after Steam's cut $77k–$176k before the cut
from 2k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 137k–304k
best case 1.4M (Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator)
Games like East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance

The middle of these games

≈ 137k–304k copies

≈ $1.4M–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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: Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator at ≈ 1.1M–1.8M copies, ≈ $6.1M–$16.3M 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 2k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 803 to 17k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (8 of 8) and Economy (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Crafting + Simulation, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Crafting + Singleplayer + Relaxing; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2010 to 2024, 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 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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