How much revenue did Obenseuer make?

$295k–$793k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Obenseuer sell?

Q: How many copies did Obenseuer sell?

54k to 87k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 54k–87k; $295k–$793k after Steam's cut $537k–$1.2M before the cut; from 2k reviews (Very 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 Obenseuer out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Obenseuer's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 10k–13k

best case 14k (汉尘：腐草为萤)

Games like Obenseuer

The middle of these games

≈ 10k–13k copies

≈ $37k–$50k after Steam's cut

from ~366 reviews

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

None of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: 汉尘：腐草为萤 at ≈ 10k–17k copies, ≈ $23k–$62k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 56 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 3 to 238.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Life Sim (6 of 8) and Simulation (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Survival + Life Sim, priced around $8.
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 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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