How much revenue did Biotope make?

$26k–$70k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Biotope sell?

Q: How many copies did Biotope sell?

6k to 10k copies, based on its 220 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 6k–10k; $26k–$70k after Steam's cut $47k–$108k before the cut; from 220 reviews (Mixed)

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 Biotope out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Biotope's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 766k–2.8M

best case 6.5M (The Sims™ 4)

Games like Biotope

The middle of these games

≈ 766k–2.8M copies

≈ $3.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut

from ~51k 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: The Sims™ 4 at ≈ 5.0M–8.0M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 953 to 69k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Immersive Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Life Sim + Character Customization.
The era: The games you compared span 2019 to 2025, and 3 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 36 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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