How much revenue did Cargo! The Quest for Gravity make?

$78k–$211k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Cargo! The Quest for Gravity sell?

Q: How many copies did Cargo! The Quest for Gravity sell?

29k to 46k copies, based on its 451 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 29k–46k; $78k–$211k after Steam's cut $142k–$324k before the cut; from 451 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 Cargo! The Quest for Gravity out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Cargo! The Quest for Gravity's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.3M–10.0M

best case 104.7M (Garry's Mod)

Games like Cargo! The Quest for Gravity

The middle of these games

≈ 1.3M–10.0M copies

≈ $7.2M–$71.0M after Steam's cut

from ~108k 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: Garry's Mod at ≈ 79.8M–129.6M copies, ≈ $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Physics (8 of 8) and Sandbox (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Moddable, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2006 to 2026, 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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Garry's Mod 2006	Est. copies ≈ 79.8M–129.6M 12x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $219.1M–$589.2M after Steam's cut $398.4M–$906.5M before the cut	$9.99	1.3M reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxModdable
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