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According to vginsights, Factorio made $123 million on Steam. Maybe they didn't make the maximum amount of money possible, but they are good a making money.

https://vginsights.com/game/427520

Edit: The gross revenue is in the top 0.01% of all Steam games.

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Placement within all steam games is not really a useful metric, there is an extremely long tail of games on steam that make basically nothing.

Factorio is a massive success and only made $123M. For a company funding a lot of things, you are going to be putting out mostly flops that lose money, and then hoping to get it back on the successes. But it doesn't look like the successes are good enough to fund all the failures. Unless you mostly take super boring safe options.

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