How much revenue did Terraforming Mars make?

$1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Terraforming Mars sell?

Q: How many copies did Terraforming Mars sell?

220k to 357k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 220k–357k; $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.2M–$5.0M before the cut; from 7k 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 Terraforming Mars out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Terraforming Mars's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–14k

best case 141k (Dune: Imperium)

Games like Terraforming Mars

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–14k copies

≈ $7k–$71k after Steam's cut

from ~92 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Dune: Imperium at ≈ 108k–175k copies, ≈ $681k–$1.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 32 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17 to 1k.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Board Game (7 of 8) and Sci-fi (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Board Game + Deckbuilding, priced around $23.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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