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How many copies did Streamer Life Simulator sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 196k–318k
$1.1M–$2.9M after Steam's cut $2.0M–$4.5M before the cut
from 8k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Streamer Life Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Streamer Life Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.6M–1.8M
best case 56.5M (Stardew Valley)
Games like Streamer Life Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 1.6M–1.8M copies

≈ $13.9M–$17.4M after Steam's cut

from ~49k 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.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Stardew Valley at ≈ 43.0M–69.9M copies, ≈ $177.4M–$476.9M 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 13k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 953 to 69k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Management (5 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Management, priced around $15. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer; a typical game here doesn't.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2025, and 3 of your 8 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 52 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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