How much revenue did SimPocalypse make?

$8k–$21k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did SimPocalypse sell?

Q: How many copies did SimPocalypse sell?

3k to 5k copies, based on its 114 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 3k–5k; $8k–$21k after Steam's cut $14k–$32k before the cut; from 114 reviews (Mixed)

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 38k–89k

best case 323k (Plantera)

Games like SimPocalypse

The middle of these games

≈ 38k–89k copies

≈ $79k–$125k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Plantera at ≈ 246k–400k copies, ≈ $202k–$544k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 549 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 127 to 2k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Clicker (8 of 8) and Idler (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $3.
The era: 4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.

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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