How much revenue did From Dust make?

$777k–$2.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did From Dust sell?

Q: How many copies did From Dust sell?

188k to 306k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 188k–306k; $777k–$2.1M after Steam's cut $1.4M–$3.2M before the cut; from 3k 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 From Dust out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including From Dust's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 93k–831k

best case 1.8M (WorldBox - God Simulator)

Games like From Dust

The middle of these games

≈ 93k–831k copies

≈ $562k–$10.3M after Steam's cut

from ~8k 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: WorldBox - God Simulator at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 8k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on God Game (8 of 8) and Sandbox (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + God Game, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2024, and 2 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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Reus 2013	Est. copies ≈ 378k–615k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.0M–$2.8M after Steam's cut $1.9M–$4.3M before the cut	$9.99	6k reviews Mostly Positive	God GameStrategy
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