How much revenue did Project Pastorate make?

$2k–$4k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Project Pastorate sell?

Q: How many copies did Project Pastorate sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 38 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $2k–$4k after Steam's cut $3k–$7k before the cut; from 38 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 Project Pastorate out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Project Pastorate's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 977–1k

best case 7.3M (鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal)

Games like Project Pastorate

The middle of these games

≈ 977–1k copies

≈ $6k–$25k after Steam's cut

from ~30 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Story Rich (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: 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $30.6M–$82.3M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

The games that made it here had under 208k reviews in their first month.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Story Rich (4 of 8) and Card Battler (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Card Game + Story Rich, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Singleplayer + Card Game + Dynamic Narration; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: Only 2 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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