How many copies did Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox sell?

274k to 445k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox make?

Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox?

Estimated owners: ≈ 274k–445k; from 8k 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 Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–6.9M

best case 12.0M (People Playground)

Games like Pixel Worlds: MMO Sandbox

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–6.9M copies

≈ $8.2M–$46.3M after Steam's cut

from ~43k 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 Sandbox (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: People Playground at ≈ 9.1M–14.9M copies, ≈ $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (4 of 8) and Building (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Sandbox + Gore, priced around $10.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 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 70 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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People Playground 2019	Est. copies ≈ 9.1M–14.9M 7.3x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut $45.7M–$103.9M before the cut	$9.99	317k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	SandboxGore
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