How much revenue did People Playground make?

$25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did People Playground sell?

Q: How many copies did People Playground sell?

9.1M to 14.9M copies, based on its 317k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9.1M–14.9M; $25.1M–$67.5M after Steam's cut $45.7M–$103.9M before the cut; from 317k reviews (Overwhelmingly 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 People Playground out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including People Playground's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.7M–3.6M

best case 7.4M (Battlefield™ 1)

Games like People Playground

The middle of these games

≈ 1.7M–3.6M copies

≈ $16.0M–$25.1M after Steam's cut

from ~62k 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: Battlefield™ 1 at ≈ 5.6M–9.1M copies, ≈ $61.8M–$166.1M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 40k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1k to 58k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sandbox (5 of 8) and Shooter (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Open World + Automobile Sim, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Open World + Automobile Sim; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2024, and 1 of your 7 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 61 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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