How much revenue did Distant Lands: Earendel make?

$205–$549 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Distant Lands: Earendel sell?

Q: How many copies did Distant Lands: Earendel sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $205–$549 after Steam's cut $372–$845 before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 66k–172k

best case 265k (Digseum)

Games like Distant Lands: Earendel

The middle of these games

≈ 66k–172k copies

≈ $67k–$328k after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Cats (3 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Digseum at ≈ 202k–327k copies, ≈ $166k–$446k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 625 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 39 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Cats (3 of 8) and Clicker (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $3.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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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