How much revenue did Forts make?

$3.6M–$9.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Forts sell?

Q: How many copies did Forts sell?

870k to 1.4M copies, based on its 25k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 870k–1.4M; $3.6M–$9.6M after Steam's cut $6.5M–$14.8M before the cut; from 25k 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 Forts out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Forts's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 379k–1.2M

best case 4.0M (Scrap Mechanic)

Games like Forts

The middle of these games

≈ 379k–1.2M copies

≈ $3.1M–$10.8M after Steam's cut

from ~15k 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: Scrap Mechanic at ≈ 3.0M–4.9M copies, ≈ $24.2M–$65.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 9k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3k to 122k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Building (7 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Building + Sandbox, priced around $29.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2026, 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 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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