How much revenue did American Fugitive make?

$515k–$1.4M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did American Fugitive sell?

Q: How many copies did American Fugitive sell?

94k to 152k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 94k–152k; $515k–$1.4M after Steam's cut $937k–$2.1M before the cut; from 3k 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 American Fugitive out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including American Fugitive's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 496k–3.6M

best case 9.8M (RimWorld)

Games like American Fugitive

The middle of these games

≈ 496k–3.6M copies

≈ $4.0M–$24.1M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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: RimWorld at ≈ 7.5M–12.1M copies, ≈ $71.8M–$193.1M after Steam's cut.

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 744 to 24k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (7 of 8) and Base-Building (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Colony Sim + Base-Building, priced around $35.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 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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