How much revenue did License To Clone make?

$737–$2k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did License To Clone sell?

Q: How many copies did License To Clone sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $737–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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 License To Clone out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including License To Clone's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 2.1M–6.5M

best case 22.6M (No Man's Sky)

Games like License To Clone

The middle of these games

≈ 2.1M–6.5M copies

≈ $37.6M–$72.4M after Steam's cut

from ~112k 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: No Man's Sky at ≈ 17.2M–28.0M copies, ≈ $284.5M–$764.9M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 38k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 6k to 43k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Survival (6 of 8) and Building (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Open World Survival Craft, priced around $60.
The era: The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 1 of your 8 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 52 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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