How much revenue did Paint Drying Simulator make?

$3k–$7k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Paint Drying Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Paint Drying Simulator sell?

10k to 16k copies, based on its 400 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 10k–16k; $3k–$7k after Steam's cut $5k–$11k before the cut; from 400 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 Paint Drying Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Paint Drying Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 3k–50k

best case 157k (Chill Pulse)

Games like Paint Drying Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 3k–50k copies

≈ $7k–$94k after Steam's cut

from ~308 reviews

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

2 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Chill Pulse at ≈ 119k–194k copies, ≈ $164k–$441k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 74 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 18 to 930.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Utilities (8 of 8) and Idler (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Utilities + Simulation, priced around $5.
The era: 6 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years. You'd be launching into a busy stretch.

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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