How much revenue did Crypto Mining Simulator make?

$52k–$140k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Crypto Mining Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Crypto Mining Simulator sell?

38k to 62k copies, based on its 2k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 38k–62k; $52k–$140k after Steam's cut $95k–$215k before the cut; from 2k 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 Crypto Mining Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Crypto Mining Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 171k–951k

best case 3.0M (Cookie Clicker)

Games like Crypto Mining Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 171k–951k copies

≈ $454k–$4.2M after Steam's cut

from ~14k 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 Life Sim (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: Cookie Clicker at ≈ 2.3M–3.7M copies, ≈ $3.2M–$8.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 3k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 444 to 12k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Life Sim (4 of 8) and Utilities (3 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Clicker + Idler, priced around $5.
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 of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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