How much revenue did Workshop Simulator make?

$42k–$112k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Workshop Simulator sell?

Q: How many copies did Workshop Simulator sell?

8k to 12k copies, based on its 306 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 8k–12k; $42k–$112k after Steam's cut $76k–$173k before the cut; from 306 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 Workshop Simulator out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Workshop Simulator's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 96k–237k

best case 1.8M (SnowRunner)

Games like Workshop Simulator

The middle of these games

≈ 96k–237k copies

≈ $193k–$1.8M after Steam's cut

from ~5k 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.

Best case: SnowRunner at ≈ 1.4M–2.2M copies, ≈ $11.4M–$30.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 575 to 6k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Exploration (8 of 8) and Simulation (8 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Automobile Sim, priced around $30. The breakout hits carry Multiplayer + Driving + Realistic; a typical game here doesn't.
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 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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