How much revenue did Factorio make?

$55.8M–$150.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Factorio sell?

Q: How many copies did Factorio sell?

5.8M to 9.4M copies, based on its 234k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5.8M–9.4M; $55.8M–$150.2M after Steam's cut $101.5M–$231.0M before the cut; from 234k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 Factorio out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Factorio's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.5M–8.0M

best case 18.7M (Cities: Skylines)

Games like Factorio

The middle of these games

≈ 5.5M–8.0M copies

≈ $60.7M–$124.7M after Steam's cut

from ~140k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Base-Building (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Cities: Skylines at ≈ 14.2M–23.1M copies, ≈ $117.4M–$315.8M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Base-Building (4 of 8) and Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Simulation, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Cities: Skylines 2015	Est. copies ≈ 14.2M–23.1M 2.1x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $117.4M–$315.8M after Steam's cut $213.5M–$485.8M before the cut	$29.99	292k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Simulation
Satisfactory 2024	Est. copies ≈ 6.9M–11.2M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 10M–20M	Est. revenue $76.0M–$204.4M after Steam's cut $138.2M–$314.4M before the cut	$39.99	279k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Base-BuildingAutomation
Oxygen Not Included 2019	Est. copies ≈ 4.1M–6.7M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $28.4M–$76.4M after Steam's cut $51.7M–$117.5M before the cut	$24.99	144k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Colony SimBase-Building
Europa Universalis IV 2013	Est. copies ≈ 8.7M–14.1M SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $119.2M–$320.5M after Steam's cut $216.8M–$493.1M before the cut	$49.99	137k reviews Very Positive	Grand StrategyStrategy
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition 2019	Est. copies ≈ 5.2M–8.5M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $50.4M–$135.5M after Steam's cut $91.6M–$208.4M before the cut	$34.99	182k reviews Very Positive	StrategyRTS
Resident Evil 4 2023	Est. copies ≈ 6.8M–11.1M 2.0x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $74.9M–$201.3M after Steam's cut $136.1M–$309.7M before the cut	$39.99	275k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	HorrorAction
Frostpunk 2018	Est. copies ≈ 4.2M–6.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $34.4M–$92.4M after Steam's cut $62.5M–$142.2M before the cut	$29.99	137k reviews Very Positive	City Builder Survival
Age of Empires II (Retired) 2013	Est. copies ≈ 6.5M–10.6M too small to compare SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $35.7M–$96.0M after Steam's cut $64.9M–$147.8M before the cut	$19.99	103k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	StrategyRTS