How much revenue did Artist Life Simulator make?

$26k–$71k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Artist Life Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Artist Life Simulator sell?

5k to 8k copies, based on its 194 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 5k–8k; $26k–$71k after Steam's cut $48k–$109k before the cut; from 194 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 Artist Life Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Artist Life Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 4.4M–7.3M

best case 8.2M (Slay the Spire)

Games like Artist Life Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 4.4M–7.3M copies

≈ $23.4M–$58.4M after Steam's cut

from ~198k reviews

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

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.2M copies, ≈ $43.1M–$116.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 239 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 21k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Card Game (6 of 8) and Life Sim (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $25.
The era: 5 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 that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 43 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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