How much revenue did Trailmakers make?

$7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Trailmakers sell?

Q: How many copies did Trailmakers sell?

1.1M to 1.8M copies, based on its 39k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.1M–1.8M; $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut $13.9M–$31.6M before the cut; from 39k 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 Trailmakers out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Trailmakers's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 678k–2.1M

best case 6.6M (STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™)

Games like Trailmakers

The middle of these games

≈ 678k–2.1M copies

≈ $14.3M–$28.8M after Steam's cut

from ~25k 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 Co-op (3 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: STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ at ≈ 5.0M–8.2M copies, ≈ $55.4M–$149.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Co-op (3 of 8) and LEGO (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + Souls-like, priced around $40. The breakout hits carry Souls-like + Story Rich + Swordplay; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2008 to 2023, and none of them 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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