How much revenue did Island 359™ make?

$55k–$149k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Island 359™ sell?

Q: How many copies did Island 359™ sell?

13k to 22k copies, based on its 442 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 13k–22k; $55k–$149k after Steam's cut $101k–$229k before the cut; from 442 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 Island 359™ out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Island 359™'s, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17.4M–31.1M

best case 35.1M (ARK: Survival Evolved)

Games like Island 359™

The middle of these games

≈ 17.4M–31.1M copies

≈ $131.1M–$206.5M after Steam's cut

from ~681k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

3 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: ARK: Survival Evolved at ≈ 26.7M–43.4M copies, ≈ $110.1M–$296.0M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Dinosaurs (7 of 8) and Open World (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World Survival Craft + Survival, priced around $15.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2025, 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 61 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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