How much revenue did Rock Simulator make?

$31k–$84k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Rock Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Rock Simulator sell?

57k to 93k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 57k–93k; $31k–$84k after Steam's cut $57k–$129k 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 Rock Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Rock Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 482k–985k

best case 1.8M (Assetto Corsa Competizione)

Games like Rock Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 482k–985k copies

≈ $1.2M–$15.1M after Steam's cut

from ~21k 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: Assetto Corsa Competizione at ≈ 1.4M–2.2M copies, ≈ $15.2M–$40.8M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 6k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4k to 7k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Sports (8 of 8) and Simulation (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Racing + Automobile Sim, priced around $40.
The era: The games you compared span 2015 to 2022, and none of them 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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