How much revenue did Dinosaur Fossil Hunter make?

$135k–$362k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Dinosaur Fossil Hunter sell?

Q: How many copies did Dinosaur Fossil Hunter sell?

25k to 40k copies, based on its 988 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 25k–40k; $135k–$362k after Steam's cut $245k–$557k before the cut; from 988 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 Dinosaur Fossil Hunter out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Dinosaur Fossil Hunter's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.1M–1.7M

best case 7.6M (The Isle)

Games like Dinosaur Fossil Hunter

The middle of these games

≈ 1.1M–1.7M copies

≈ $15.9M–$36.2M after Steam's cut

from ~46k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: The Isle at ≈ 5.8M–9.5M copies, ≈ $32.0M–$86.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 4k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2k to 11k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Sandbox (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Dinosaurs + Survival, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Survival + Hunting + Realistic; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2021, 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 61 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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