How much revenue did Timeflow – Life Sim make?

$193k–$519k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Timeflow – Life Sim sell?

Q: How many copies did Timeflow – Life Sim sell?

47k to 76k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 47k–76k; $193k–$519k after Steam's cut $351k–$798k 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 Timeflow – Life Sim out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Timeflow – Life Sim's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 73k–179k

best case 439k (Big Ambitions)

Games like Timeflow – Life Sim

The middle of these games

≈ 73k–179k copies

≈ $442k–$1.4M after Steam's cut

from ~3k 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: Big Ambitions at ≈ 335k–544k copies, ≈ $2.4M–$6.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 281 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 12 to 5k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Economy (7 of 8) and Life Sim (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Management + Economy, priced around $26.
The era: Only 1 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. That says more about your picks than about the market, so add newer similar games to read the timing.

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 36 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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