How much revenue did Anno 2205™ make?

$3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Anno 2205™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Anno 2205™ sell?

309k to 502k copies, based on its 6k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 309k–502k; $3.4M–$9.1M after Steam's cut $6.2M–$14.1M before the cut; from 6k 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 Anno 2205™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Anno 2205™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 50k–503k

best case 1.1M (Surviving Mars)

Games like Anno 2205™

The middle of these games

≈ 50k–503k copies

≈ $248k–$1.2M after Steam's cut

from ~4k 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: Surviving Mars at ≈ 873k–1.4M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 713 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and City Builder (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + City Builder.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 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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