How much revenue did Iron Harvest make?

$3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Iron Harvest sell?

Q: How many copies did Iron Harvest sell?

395k to 643k copies, based on its 16k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 395k–643k; $3.3M–$8.8M after Steam's cut $5.9M–$13.5M before the cut; from 16k 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 Iron Harvest out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Iron Harvest's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 39.3M–81.8M

best case 813.7M (Counter-Strike 2)

Games like Iron Harvest

The middle of these games

≈ 39.3M–81.8M copies

≈ $214.4M–$455.2M after Steam's cut

from ~854k 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 FPS (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: Counter-Strike 2 at ≈ 620.0M–1007.5M copies. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on FPS (4 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with FPS + Shooter. The breakout hits carry Competitive + Team-Based + e-sports; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, and none of them 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 79 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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Dead by Daylight 2016	Est. copies ≈ 38.7M–62.9M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $212.7M–$571.8M after Steam's cut $386.7M–$879.7M before the cut	$19.99	930k reviews Mostly Positive	HorrorMultiplayer
The Forest 2018	Est. copies ≈ 20.7M–33.6M SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue $113.8M–$305.9M after Steam's cut $206.9M–$470.7M before the cut	$19.99	681k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Open World Survival CraftSurvival
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS 2017	Est. copies ≈ 94.5M–153.6M 3.2x vs typical SteamSpy 100M–200M	Est. revenue Free	Free	2.7M reviews Mixed	SurvivalShooter
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 2015	Est. copies ≈ 75.3M–122.4M 1.8x vs typical SteamSpy 20M–50M	Est. revenue Free	Free	1.5M reviews Very Positive	FPSPvP
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