How much revenue did FAR: Lone Sails make?

$3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did FAR: Lone Sails sell?

Q: How many copies did FAR: Lone Sails sell?

802k to 1.3M copies, based on its 26k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 802k–1.3M; $3.3M–$8.9M after Steam's cut $6.0M–$13.7M before the cut; from 26k 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 FAR: Lone Sails out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including FAR: Lone Sails's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–44k

best case 184k (FAR: Changing Tides)

Games like FAR: Lone Sails

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–44k copies

≈ $65k–$261k after Steam's cut

from ~491 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: FAR: Changing Tides at ≈ 140k–228k copies, ≈ $771k–$2.1M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 165 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 76 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Post-apocalyptic (7 of 8) and Souls-like (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Action-Adventure + Post-apocalyptic, priced around $20.
The era: Only 3 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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