How much revenue did The Universim make?

$2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Universim sell?

Q: How many copies did The Universim sell?

264k to 429k copies, based on its 11k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 264k–429k; $2.2M–$5.9M after Steam's cut $4.0M–$9.0M before the cut; from 11k reviews (Mostly 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 The Universim out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Universim's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 64k–350k

best case 1.3M (Craft The World)

Games like The Universim

The middle of these games

≈ 64k–350k copies

≈ $398k–$2.3M after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Craft The World at ≈ 955k–1.6M copies, ≈ $5.0M–$13.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 845 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 784 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Colony Sim (7 of 8) and Base-Building (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dwarf + Colony Sim, priced around $19.
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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