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How many copies did Sleep Simulator sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 50–81
$28–$73 after Steam's cut $50–$113 before the cut
from 2 reviews (2 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 2 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4k–19k
best case 68k (East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance)
Games like Sleep Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 4k–19k copies

≈ $20k–$69k after Steam's cut

from ~231 reviews

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

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance at ≈ 52k–84k copies, ≈ $43k–$115k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 66 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 21 to 842.
Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Simulation (7 of 8) and Immersive Sim (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Simulation + Trading, 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 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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Est. copies
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9.0x vs typical
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$2.99
2k reviews
Very Positive
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312 reviews
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150 reviews
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Japanese Rail Sim: Journey to Kyoto
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$49k–$132k after Steam's cut $89k–$203k before the cut
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120 reviews
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112 reviews
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Est. copies
≈ 12k–20k
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$27k–$71k after Steam's cut $48k–$110k before the cut
$7.99
487 reviews
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