How many copies did Walking Simulator sell?

235k to 381k copies, based on its 9k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

How much revenue did Walking Simulator make?

Walking Simulator is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How big is Walking Simulator?

Estimated owners: ≈ 235k–381k; from 9k 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 Walking Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Walking Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 688k–1.3M

best case 1.1M (Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut)

Games like Walking Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 688k–1.3M copies

≈ $5.1M–$8.2M after Steam's cut

from ~20k 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.

No genre covers most of your similar games. The closest is Simulation (4 of 8), so the genre you lead with is still undecided.

Of the 416 indie games that passed 1,000 reviews in 2022, 11.8% were novel genre mixes and 88.2% stuck to an established genre. Published indie market research.

Best case: Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut at ≈ 837k–1.4M copies, ≈ $4.1M–$11.1M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (4 of 8) and Exploration (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Visual Novel + Choices Matter, priced around $18.
The era: The games you compared span 2013 to 2023, 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 79 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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House Party 2022	Est. copies ≈ 382k–621k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $2.6M–$7.1M after Steam's cut $4.8M–$10.9M before the cut	$24.99	15k reviews Very Positive	NudityMature
Her Story 2015	Est. copies ≈ 507k–824k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.4M–$3.7M after Steam's cut $2.5M–$5.8M before the cut	$9.99	10k reviews Very Positive	InvestigationTyping
Youtubers Life 2017	Est. copies ≈ 530k–862k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $2.9M–$7.8M after Steam's cut $5.3M–$12.1M before the cut	$19.99	15k reviews Mostly Positive	ManagementSingleplayer
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut 2023	Est. copies ≈ 837k–1.4M 1.7x vs typical SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.1M–$11.1M after Steam's cut $7.5M–$17.1M before the cut	$17.99	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Visual NovelChoices Matter
The Witness 2016	Est. copies ≈ 887k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $9.8M–$26.2M after Steam's cut $17.7M–$40.3M before the cut	$39.99	21k reviews Very Positive	PuzzleExploration
NBA 2K19 2018	Est. copies ≈ 686k–1.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	23k reviews Mostly Negative	SportsBasketball
Gone Home 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.2M–1.9M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $4.8M–$12.9M after Steam's cut $8.7M–$19.9M before the cut	$14.99	18k reviews Mostly Positive	Walking SimulatorShort
Who's Your Daddy?! 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.2M 1.6x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $3.7M–$9.8M after Steam's cut $6.6M–$15.1M before the cut	$9.99	32k reviews Mostly Positive	FunnyMultiplayer