How much revenue did The Colonists make?

$259k–$697k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Colonists sell?

Q: How many copies did The Colonists sell?

38k to 61k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 38k–61k; $259k–$697k after Steam's cut $471k–$1.1M before the cut; from 1k 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 The Colonists out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Colonists's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 553k–1.1M

best case 1.3M (Timberborn)

Games like The Colonists

The middle of these games

≈ 553k–1.1M copies

≈ $5.3M–$13.8M after Steam's cut

from ~28k 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: Timberborn at ≈ 1.0M–1.7M copies, ≈ $9.8M–$26.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 16k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 38k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on City Builder (7 of 8) and Management (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with City Builder + Voxel, priced around $35.
The era: 5 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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