How much revenue did Turmoil make?

$2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Turmoil sell?

Q: How many copies did Turmoil sell?

670k to 1.1M copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 670k–1.1M; $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut $4.4M–$9.9M before the cut; from 16k reviews (Very 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 Turmoil out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Turmoil's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 295k–640k

best case 925k (Hydroneer)

Games like Turmoil

The middle of these games

≈ 295k–640k copies

≈ $1.2M–$5.2M after Steam's cut

from ~12k 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: Hydroneer at ≈ 704k–1.1M copies, ≈ $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut.

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 1k to 3k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Mining (5 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Base-Building + Mining, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2023, 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 31 for the most recent game here to about 43 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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